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THE IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT ON CIVILIZATION CHANGES THROUGHOUT HISTORY – IN THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION
Ewa POLAK1
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Special issue Lech W. Zacher in memoriam
Transformations No. 3 (118) 2023, Publication date: 29 September 2023
Keywords: artificial intelligence, modern technology, scientific and technical progress
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. Science and technology is getting more and more powerful and begins to dominate people. The work is devoted to the analysis of the impact of scientific and technical progress on nature and pace of socio-economic development. concentration of power and wealth, changes in social structure and culture, intensification of the surveillance, subjugate and invisible control processes and in consequence, on the condition of the democratic state, its citizens and the global order. The subject of research is public perception of technological progress and changes in this area in history and today.
Akademia Kultury Społecznej i Medialnej w Toruniu, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0002-6584-3506
E-mail: ewa.polak@ug.edu.pl