Taken to excessive, some argue that technicism is the assumption that humanity will in the end be capable of management the entirety of existence utilizing technology. In different phrases, human beings will someday be capable of grasp all problems and presumably even management the lengthy run using technology. Some, similar to Monsma, join these ideas to the abdication of religion as the next ethical authority.

Technology has affected society and its environment in a quantity of methods. In many societies, technology has helped develop extra advanced economies (including today’s world economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce undesirable by-products, known as air pollution, and deplete natural assets, to the detriment of the Earth and its setting. Various implementations of technology affect the values of a society and new technology usually raises new ethical questions. Examples embrace the rise of the notion of effectivity …