Technophilics Vrs Technophobics
The technophobic view sees technology as a threat because of its inherent capacity to alianate individuals from our common humanity and shared social situation. In this view, technology obscures or distorts human nature, or technology creates circumstances in which people no longer have to interact face to face, allowing for a moral distancing that disinishes our obligations and responsability to others.
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Good and Services
One of the most basic ideas in economics is goods and services. More than anything else, money is spent on goods and services. It helps to know the difference between them.
A good is something that you can use or consume, like food or CDs or books or a car or clothes. You buy a good with the idea that you will use it, either just once or over and over again.
A service is something that someone does for you, like give you a haircut or fix you dinner or even teach you social studies. You don't really get something solid, like a book or a CD, but you do get something that you need.
The basic difference is that a good is something you can hold in your hand (unless it's something big, like a car or a house).
Now, a service can also contain a good. Someone who fixes you dinner gives you food, which was bought. In this example, the food is the good and the person's fixing it for you is the service.
In the same way, another example is when your teacher gives you a service by teaching you social studies. Your teacher also gives you a good by giving you a textbook.
Your teacher teaching you social studies is a good example of a service that you personally don't pay for.
A good is something that you can use or consume, like food or CDs or books or a car or clothes. You buy a good with the idea that you will use it, either just once or over and over again.
A service is something that someone does for you, like give you a haircut or fix you dinner or even teach you social studies. You don't really get something solid, like a book or a CD, but you do get something that you need.
The basic difference is that a good is something you can hold in your hand (unless it's something big, like a car or a house).
Now, a service can also contain a good. Someone who fixes you dinner gives you food, which was bought. In this example, the food is the good and the person's fixing it for you is the service.
In the same way, another example is when your teacher gives you a service by teaching you social studies. Your teacher also gives you a good by giving you a textbook.
Your teacher teaching you social studies is a good example of a service that you personally don't pay for.
And not all services are economic, either. A service can be as simple as reading a book to someone. This kind of activity doesn't cost anything, but it is something that one person did for another.
Remember, the one thing that sets goods and services apart is the ability to touch them. You can touch a good, but you can't touch a service. You can touch the result of a service but not the service itself.
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