TRASHITECTS

An important cultural factor in social evolution is the accumulation of knowledge. Knowledge of the underlying technology; improvement of technologies is an essential mechanism to change the social structure. Ancient agrarian civilization-generation developed agriculture, based on the use of plough, animal, artificial irrigation systems and other technologies that may seem primitive today, but have a revolutionary impact on the structure of the societies of the past. Industrial society is impossible without opening the energy of steam and other technical innovations. Widespread introduction of technology in the production had a profound impact on the social structure and way of life.

Allowing more goods at lower costs, technological achievements are the principal means of raising living standards … However; technology has become not only a means of raising living standards, but also the primary mechanism for reducing inequalities in Western society. The reason for this …is lowering the cost of most goods and rising real wages of the working class in Western countries.

Development of technology has created a new class, previously unknown in society-class engineers and technicians, people not directly engaged in productive work, but a “device” planning operations that make up the production process.

Technological progress has formed a new definition of rationality, a new way of thinking, make emphasis on the functional relationship and quantitative indicators. Performance criteria it is efficiency and optimization, i.e., the use of resources with minimal cost and effort. This definition of functional rationality has resulted new forms of education, when quantitative methods and economic analysis is being pushed back to the old principles based on speculative thought, traditions and internal sense.

The transition to a post-industrial stage of development in the second half of the 20th century is also linked to the further development of technologies based on the growth of scientific knowledge, the emergence of information technologies. Impact of information technology on structure and culture of modern societies elicited the emergence of a new term-”information society”.