SOCA02H3 Chapter 22: Chapter 22 Notes

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Chapter 22 technology and the global environment. Scholars interested in the relationship between technology and society also recognize that the bombing of hiroshima divided the twentieth century into two distinct periods. The period before hiroshima the era of naive optimism. Sociologist charles perrow was referring to events such as those listed above as normal accidents; the term normal accident recognizes that the very complexity of modern technologies ensures they will inevitably fail, though in unpredictable ways. The latest concern of technological skeptics is biotechnology; molecular biologists have mapped the entire human gene structure and are also mapping the gene structures of selected animals and plants. Nikolai kondratiev was the first social scientist to notice that technologies are invented in clusters; a new group of major inventions has cropped up every 40 to 60 years since the. John atanasoff was among the first people to invent the computer in 1939.

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