" Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.

By the 1960s science fiction was combining sensationalism with political and technological critiques of society.

Outside the city lie wastelands where " Outsiders ", Gallifreyans who have dropped out of Time Lord society, live in less technological tribal communities.

During the late 18th century and early 19th century, there was considerable social upheaval as a largely agrarian society was transformed by technological advances and increasing mechanization, which was the Industrial Revolution.

Katherine Anne MacLean ( born January 22, 1925 ) is an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.

Cultural and technological developments transformed European society, concluding the Late Middle Age and beginning the Early Modern period.

In general, the main results from this theory compare price-fixing methods across market structures, analyze the effect of a certain structure on welfare, and vary technological / demand assumptions in order to assess the consequences for an abstract model of society.

Some view this as leading to the so-called technological singularity as persuasion technology advocates the creation of more persuasion technology until all are persuaded to do nothing but work on improving technology-handing effective control of society to it.

Orthodox Maxists and Left Communists take an Impossibilist stance, believing revolution should be spontaneous as a result of contradictions in society resulting from technological changes in the productive forces.

The mission of the School of Education at St. John Fisher College is to provide a quality educational experience that prepares candidates for distinguished careers in their chosen profession and for leadership roles in a diverse, rapidly changing and increasingly technological society.

Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements criticise the pervasiveness of technology in the modern world, opining that it harms the environment and alienates people ; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition.

Several potential methods of altering the climate of Mars may fall within humanity's technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources required to do so are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate to the purpose.

* In The Left Hand Of Darkness, the planet Gde is described as extremely hot rock and desert, the result of a technological society that " wrecked its ecological balance " some millennia previous, and " burned up its forests for kindling.

The movie draws on concerns over reproductive technologies which facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society.

Most socialists argue that capitalism unfairly concentrates power, wealth and profit, among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, stifling technological and economic progress by maintaining an anarchy of production.

Media determinism, a subset of technological determinism, is a philosophical and sociological position which posits the power of the media to impact society.

A member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Chomsky is a self-described Anarcho-Syndicalist, a position which he sees as the appropriate application of classical liberal political theory to contemporary industrial society: " Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism ; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.

Those new immigrants of the Middle Ages were a minority in numbers, yet their cultural contributions, political and technological to the neo-Vazimba and neo-Vezo world substantially altered their society and is the cause of the major upheavals of the sixteenth that led to the Malagasy feudal era.

The specific term " singularity " as a description for a phenomenon of technological acceleration causing an eventual unpredictable outcome in society was coined by mathematician and physicist Stanislaw Ulam as early as 1958, when he wrote of a conversation with John von Neumann concerning the " ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

In a world where technological efficiency has increased production exponentially, by tenfold, the workers of society still dedicate the whole of their lives to survival, by way of production.

As such, the Culture is also a post-scarcity society, where technological advances ensure that no one lacks any material goods or services.

Here " validation " means that the object in question has been validated as evidence of technological developments that were present in an ancient society and which were previously unknown to us.

Influenced by the Marxist view of history, Childe used the work to argue that the usual distinction between ( pre-literate ) prehistory and ( literate ) history was a false dichotomy and that human society has progressed through a series of technological, economic and social revolutions.

The concept of the Dyson sphere was the result of a thought experiment by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, when he theorized that all technological civilizations constantly increased their demand for energy.

So hypertext signifies a change from linear, structured and hierarchical forms of representing and understanding the world into fractured, decentralized and changeable media based on the technological concept of hypertext links.

While the government still regulates many of the country's cultural interactions with others, it is very open to the concept of an open market and competition with other countries, allowing the flow of technological innovations to flow in and out of its borders freely.

Kurzweil is generally recognized as a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, due to his stances on life extension technologies, his efforts to forecast future advances in technology, and his interest in the concept of the technological singularity.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Whereas the groupware or collaborative software pertains to the technological elements of computer supported cooperative work, collaborative work systems become a useful analytical tool to understand the behavioral and organizational variables that are associated to the broader concept of CSCW.

" This last looked at " Science and the individual ," " Control of man's physical surroundings ," " Science and the problem of world population ," and " Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world.

* Agrarian system – concept used to describe the dynamic set of economic and technological factors that affect agricultural practices.

The concept of music technology is intimately connected to both artistic and technological creativity.

Later, inspired by Terry Riley's use of one tape on two tape machines, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp created the technical basis for their No Pussyfooting album — this technological concept was later dubbed Frippertronics.

It is also a study on the concept of technological singularity.

Depending on the underlying technological speculation, the concept of human teleportation introduces similar paradoxes.

Tennessee Steinmetz delivers a soliloquy that references the concept of the technological singularity: " Jim, it's happening right under our noses and we can't see it.

Because the proponents of the concept came from different cultural backgrounds, no single definition of the term exists, but typically " Asian values " encompass some influences of Confucianism, in particular loyalty towards the family, corporation, and nation ; the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of society's stability and prosperity ; the pursuit of academic and technological excellence ; and work ethic and thrift.

The Spike is a 1997 book by Damien Broderick exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the technological singularity.

When he failed to find suitable reference works, he undertook the task of writing one from scratch while designing what he called the ' Eixample ', borrowing a few technological ideas from his contemporaries to create a unique, thoroughly modern integrated concept that was carefully considered rather than whimsically designed.

An originator of the concept now known as " technological singularity ," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As a general concept it implies precision, and is any technological or tactical solution or system ( often for a military application ) designed to prevent an undesirable outcome in the process.

The concept of technological determinism is dependent upon the premise that social changes come about as a result of the new capabilities that new technologies enable.

The military concept of Revolution in Military Affairs ( RMA ) is a theory about the future of warfare, often connected to technological and organizational recommendations for change in the United States military and others.

This " something else " is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity.

According to Mario Costa, the concept of the sublime should be examined first of all in relation to the epochal novelty of the digital technologies, and the technological artistic production: new media art, computer-based generative art, networking, telecommunication art.

Morgan's concept of three major stages of social evolution ( savagery, barbarism, and civilization ) can be divided by technological milestones, such as fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.