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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022, Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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MEDIA TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORATIONS. FROM TAM- TAMS TO CHAT GPT
Tomasz GOBAN-KLAS
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The author analyzes the evolution and transformation of media technologies, starting from Tam-Tams to Chat GPT. In his interdisciplinary considerations, he refers to the works of such authors as Alvin Toffler, Paul Levinson, Steve Case, Roger Fidler, Marshall McLuhan, among others. He begins with a [...] Read more.
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THE IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT ON CIVILIZATION CHANGES THROUGHOUT HISTORY – IN THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION
Ewa POLAK
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract Modern technology, especially artificial intelligence, offers growing chances not only of economic development, but provides almost unlimited possibilities of monitoring and manipulation, also in the democratic countries and the threat of authoritarianism and even totalitarianism on a global scale. [...] Read more.
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HUMAN IN COMPARISON TO TECHNIQUE AND CHANGE. A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT SOCIETY AND EDUCATION IN LECH W. ZACHER'S WORKS
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract In the article, subject considered and analised the problem of forming relations of human-techniques in the perspective of postmodern changes, constituting one of the most crucial parts of Lech W. Zachary's works and studies. In particular, it brings attention on - often brang up by him - matter of [...] Read more.
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RESEARCH ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN WORLD. INSPIRATIONS IN THE CONCEPTS OF LECH W. ZACHER
Mirosław GEISE, Janusz GOLINOWSKI
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The inspiration for the research undertaken by the authors was the thoughts and ideas found in the scientific output of the late Lech W. Zacher. At one of the scientific conferences, we had the honor of hearing for the first time the speech of this distinguished scientist. The paper delivered by the [...] Read more.
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MEDIA AND JOURNALISM IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Stanisław JĘDRZEJEWSKI
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The author analyzes possible scenarios for the development of media and journalism in a dynamically changing technological environment. He begins with a theoretical introduction describing the determinants of these transformations. He justifies the importance of technology understood as a key element [...] Read more.
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GŁÓWNE FAKTORY TRANSFORMACJI PLANETY ZIEMIA MINIPRZEWODNIK PO MEGATRENDACH
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
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MASTER AND AI: AT THE EDGE OF A BIG CHANGE
Krystyna M. BŁESZYŃSKA
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The development of modern technologies stimulates transformations in the functioning of universities, challenging their existing structures, relationships, and paradigms of education. The Master-professor not only ceases to be the basic holder of knowledge, but also - as a digital immigrant - often [...] Read more.
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LECH W. ZACHER'S TECHNOANTHROPOLOGY
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The author analyses the technoanthropology of Lech W. Zacher. She begins her discussion by presenting his scientific interests, calling him a technohumanist who combines a deep reflection on technology with a sensitive understanding of it. The author describes the main directions of his research, such [...] Read more.
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AN INFINITE CHESS GAME: THE HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE
Anna MAJ
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The human-machine relationship has been undergoing dynamic changes for several decades. However, the spectacular successes testifying to the state of development of artificial intelligence today give them the meaning of radical changes, entering new areas of human activity, causing new wave of fascination [...] Read more.
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GAMES ON THE FUTURE: PARTICULAR CASE OF EDUCATION TO INFOFREEDOM
Tadeusz MICZKA
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Numer specjalny Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Abstract The article continues the idea taken from Lech W. Zacher's book Games for Future Worlds. New media have become both permanent elements of modern man's everyday life and signs of civilisational progress. They must therefore play an increasingly important role in the processes of learning, school and [...] Read more.