{"id":22,"date":"2025-01-23T01:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-01-23T01:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T01:40:36","slug":"technopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/blog-post\/technopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Technopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ideas and Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found the reading to be pretty interesting! In order to accept new technology, we should fully understand it, knowing its benefits and downsides. Chapter 1 really intrigued me as he emphasized how should avoid the extremes, between being a technophile or a technophobe. Technophile as in only seeing the benefits of technology, and technophobes only seeing the downsides, or just fearing new technology in general. Chapter 2 goes through the historical and cultural context of technocracy. Chapter 3 describes how technocracy transitioned to technopoly, where it reshaped the definitions of different societal concepts such as religion or family to align with technology. Chapter 4 outlines the change in how we access information, to where we didn&#8217;t have access to much information, to now having unlimited access through the digital age. Chapter 5 showcases and wraps up the reading so far well by establishing how society needs morality when we are navigating new inventions or advancements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Oblivion&#8217;s Input<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Oblivion said that it is important to incorporate how we must stick to ethics and morals in a technologically-advancing environment. He also said how it is &#8220;essential to embrace new technology, but also be wary of it&#8217;s setbacks&#8221;. Overall, he outlined the same points that I said above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas and Summary I found the reading to be pretty interesting! In order to accept new technology, we should fully understand it, knowing its benefits and downsides. Chapter 1 really intrigued me as he emphasized how should avoid the extremes, between being a technophile or a technophobe. Technophile as in only seeing the benefits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-technopoly-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}