Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Chap 3. Science & Society

  • science leads to new tech
  • tech leads to reduced labor need/drives down cost
  • reduced cost leads to competition/devalued currency/weakened purchasing power
  • -> weak $$ hurts labor class?

  • shortened travel / created new, efficient means of destruction
  • communication - easier to control larger group of people....fosters dictatorship and empire?

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