ABSTRACT
It is a well-known fact that technology is a double-sided phenomenon in modern western culture. On the one hand technology holds promise for the future. Medical cures, environmental friendly transport, GM crops that can solve the global food crisis, and solar energy are some examples of how current-day technology may play a part in a future sustainable world. On the other hand, technology has proved to be the cause of severe social and environment problems. The pollution of the Minamata Bay in Japan in the late 1950s, the Harrisburg and Chernobyl accidents, the spread of pesticides and herbicides in the bodies of people, animals and plants, anthropogenic changes in the global climate system, and various types of pollution in the global waterscape are well known problems that can be linked to the use and abuse of different technological devices and systems.
