Victims In Progress of Technology Technologies' place in society has increased dramatically since the industrial revolution era. The public's view of technology has been one of positivism, meaning that science(technology) leads to progress and that progress, in return, is positive. Those countries which enjoy such technologies have formed ethnocentric ideals about themselves, which has led to their efforts in industrializing the rest of the world. In this process, cultures and traditions are being dismissed as backwards, so that industrialized countries can move in and take control. Anthropologist John H. Bodley, in his book Victims in Pro....

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