Rees was born on 23 June 1942 in York, England. He was educated at Bedstone College, then from the age of 13 at Shrewsbury School, a public school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He went on to study the Ma ...
Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the second is the Astronomer Ro ...
In Our Final Hour, Rees predicts that one of the two following outcomes is inevitable for humanity:Human extinction, as a result of the runaway effects of new technology (e.g. nanotechnology) or uncon ...
Profiteering is a pejorative term for the act of making a profit by methods considered unethical.Business owners may be accused of profiteering when they raise prices during an emergency (especially a ...
Perhaps the first occurrence of the phrase in The New York Times is in a 1958 story advocating "atomic energy" for Europe: "...Western Europe, with its dense population and its high technology..." A 1 ...
Technological utopianism from the 19th to mid-20th centuries Karl Marx believed that science and democracy were the right and left hands of what he called the move from the realm of necessity to the r ...
Haraway begins the Manifesto by explaining three boundary breakdowns since the 20th Century that have allowed for her hybrid, cyborg myth: the breakdown of boundaries between human and animal, animal- ...
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when Harraway ...
The term was coined in 1984 by the sound collage band Negativland, with the release of their album JamCon '84. The phrase "culture jamming" comes from the idea of radio jamming: that public frequencie ...
In his first book, Culture Jam, Lasn portrays consumerism as the fundamental evil of the modern era. He calls for a "meme war": a battle of ideas to shift Western society away from consumer capitalism ...
A major critic of technology was German philosopher Martin Heidegger. In The Question Concerning Technology (1953), Heidegger posited that the modern technological "mode of Being" was one which viewed ...
Known as RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International) until 1 September 2001, the ETC Group traces its history back to the National Sharecroppers Fund that was established in the 1930s by Eleanor ...
Indian ideological leader Mahatma Gandhi is often cited as the "father" of the appropriate technology movement. Though the concept had not been given a name, Gandhi advocated for small, local and pred ...
Ecophagy is a term coined by Robert Freitas that means the literal consumption of an ecosystem. It derives from the Greek "οικο?" (oikos) or Late Latin "oeco-", which refers to a "house" or "hous ...
The term "ecosystem" was introduced by Arthur Roy Clapham in early 1930s and became more widely known via the works of Arthur Tansley, a British ecologist. Tansley devised the concept to draw attentio ...
