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TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A PANASEA FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
- Author(s):
- Augustine Farinola (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- African Philosophy, Digital Humanists, Network for Digital Humanities in Africa, Philosophy, Public Philosophy Journal
- Subject(s):
- Technology--Study and teaching, Africa, Area studies, Technology--Sociological aspects, Technology--Philosophy, Science--Philosophy, Science, Technology, History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Technology studies, African studies, Sociology of technology, Philosophy of technology, History and philosophy of science and technology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/1ecn-se88
- Abstract:
- In this essay, I examined the idea of ‘technological revolution’ to confirm whether it connotes a sort of incorporation of existing technologies as new ones emerges or whether it portrays a ‘sharp discontinuity’ from the prior technologies. I began by exploring the dictionary definitions of ‘revolution’ in order to appropriate its usage in relation to technological advancement, progress, evolution or change. Then, I proceeded to investigate the historical accounts of technological revolutions with an attempt to narrate what happened. Juxtaposing scientific and technological revolutions, I discovered the influences they both had on each other as the concept of 'revolution' could be said to be applied in the same sense to both fields of human inquiry. I concluded by displaying my own understanding of the concept of 'revolution' as applicable to technological revolutions in Africa.
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- 3 years ago
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