Word: technophobia
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...Oracle of Omaha" lost it? Please. He suffers from technophobia and has thus missed out on a big part of what's been driving the stock market. Meanwhile, those big-brand names he loves have been laggards. But it's hard to make the case that in the very long term--and Buffett believes in holding for life--stocks like Gillette and Coke won't come back...
...Leia, and Luke, though trite, is boldly left unresolved and becomes more interesting in light of what we learn in the later films. Even the idea behind the Force--the product of an ancient religion that has power over modern technology--taps into the debate between modernity and technophobia that is even more relevant today than twenty years...
Only a handful of schools have well-established programs to try to overcome technophobia. In 1975 San Francisco State University started its NEXA program (taken from a Latin word meaning to bring together things that have been separated) to reunite the humanities and sciences. The program, which emphasizes the history of ideas, has about 500 students a semester. Stanford's Program in Values, Technology and Society (VTS) began ten years ago to present technology in the context of social issues. VTS has 30 instructors from a variety of disciplines, 850 students a year and about 45 courses, including...