FEAR, HATE AND LOVE OF TECHNOSCIENCE

ISBN-13: 9786204934822 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str.

MANUEL AFONSO

Opis

Technoscience is an integral part of humanity and promises, at every step of historical progress, the improvement of the present and the future by providing well-being. This well-being is partially accompanied by uneasiness. From uneasiness, fear and hatred result. Fear of danger and disasters caused by the applications of techno-scientific conquests, such as technological wars that raise big problems; fear of the manipulation of the human genetic heritage, where it is unknown what the human species will be like in the future; intelligent machines used in wars, in automation, industrial work, cause of unemployment and human dependence. The mistrust, human insecurity of technoscience generates the technological syndrome, a fatal vision of technoscience. But mankind loves technoscience for its well-being. From well-being comes the love of technoscience for meeting basic needs: food, transportation, communication, health, work, entertainment. And so the power of technoscience is ambiguous in that it can both save and destroy.

O autorze

Manuel Afonso was born on April 1st 1992 in Miangaleua, Muidumbe district, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique. He holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the São Carlos Lwanga Philosophical Seminary in Nampula, Mozambique, and a degree in Philosophy Teaching with Ethics from the Pedagogical University of Maputo (UPM), Mozambique.