Dr. Wolfgang Kramer : Technological Development and Globalization. A Philosophical Perspective

A Lecture by Dr. Wolfgang Kramer. Introduction and Moderation: Aj. Gerhart Schneider; M.Sc.

A philosophical discussion on the influence of technology and globalization on our life, our world view, on our work and social situation. The two most actual and relevant analysis of the present time and its technological reality by the philosophers Günther Anders and Jean Baudrillard are presented by Dr. Wolfgang Kramer, who prepared his Ph.D thesis on this subject.

The essential cause behind globalization that is the basic assumption by Dr. Kramer is the digital revolution, especially with regard to communication and transportation technologies, and this revolution changed fundamentally both man and society.

The essential feature of the human environment, changed through reproduction technologies which are applied to working time and leisure, is an extreme acceleration of life processes, and consequently a huge loss of experience and reality.

Technology and globalization of the world in their final stage result not only in social transformation, but also in an anthropological revolution: the modern technologies contain inherently an anthropofugal tendency which aims at overcoming man and rendering him superfluous.

Homepage of Dr. Wolfgang Kramer (Berlin/Germany): http://wolfgang-kramer.net

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Science & Technology

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• Dr. Wolfgang Kramer
• technocracy
• globalization
• de-materialization
• simulation
• technocratic reality
• one-dimensional world
• global village
• promethean discrepancy