“We have become more subject to the dictates of modern industry and government” (Harari, 352). Harari argues that after the…
CRISPR, a power in the hands of humans making scientists able to alter, delete and rearrange the DNA of nearly…
“Natura no facit saltum”, in English; natural selection. This is the theory that Darwin couldn’t definitely prove was the answer…
The Anthropocene, viewed as the period where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment, is…
The temperature changes are projected to reduce increases in ocean temperature, there will be worsening of food shortages and wildfires…
The three types of technofixes are: the transformational, the relocational and the delaying techno-fix. LeCain describes that engineers and mining…
Mining engineers repeatedly used technology in different ways to “surpass the subterrestrial environmental barriers to human survival” (LeCain, 47). The…
“The English hierarchy has equal reason to tremble at an air pump, or an electrical machine” (Johnson, 148) In the…
Is death really a technical problem? Harari states that science is only happening if there is a ‘mutual reinforcement’ of…
From Harari’s point of view, the Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions form the basis for our modern civilization. This Cognitive Revolution…
Douthwaite argued that a technological fix can fix many social science problems in the short run: “if it works even…
As Diamond mentions, “environmentally Montana is perhaps the least damaged of the lower 48 states” (Diamond 33). Montana, compared to…