CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARD TECHNOLOGY The Greeks agreed that the earlier something appears, the later people understand it. As technology appeared in the remote early time of human society thus far people understand it only to a small extent. In the West, technology has been differently appraised, and in history attitudes toward it have undergone diametric changes. Today, worldwide, understandings of technological development and attitudes toward technology in Eastern and Western, developing and advanced, countries are evidently different. Generally speaking, in the West before the 20th century an affirmative view of technology was held by most people, whereas since the beginning of this century an anti-technological view has come to be held more and more by the educated class. However, the developing and underdeveloped countries usually hold favorable views of technology and often take an optimistic attitude toward an ambitious development of technology. This contrast is a......
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