Welche Technologien?
Eine nette Frage aus dem Buch “Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the balance” (Riddell, 2004):
In order to test the pervasiveness of modern technology, rank this list of alphabetically ordered twentieth-century technological step-changes in order of importance – listing those you could least do without ‘first’, and those you’d be most ready to give up on ‘last’ (“Reihe die untenstehenden Erfindungen des 20sten Jahrhunderts von “ohne könnte ich nicht” bis “geht auch ohne”", Übersetzung von mir).
Antibiotics
Airplane travel
Automobiles
Birth pill
Computers
Electricity
Food preservation
Genetic engineering
Motion pictures
Nuclear capability
Plastics
Plumbing in the home
Radio
Reinforced concrete
Space travel
Tapwater supply
Telephone
Television
Sewerage disposal
VacationingSee where, on the list, you would draw a cut-off line if it were imperative to do so! (“Wo würdest Du die Verfügbarkeits-Linie ziehen, wenn Du müsstest?”)
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Antibiotics
Tapwater supply
Sewerage disposal
Plumbing in the home
Food preservation
Plastics
Electricity
Radio
Telephone
Computers
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Automobiles
Airplane travel
Vacationing
Television
Motion pictures
Birth pill
Genetic engineering
Reinforced concrete
Nuclear capability
Space travel
Tapwater supply
Sewerage disposal
Food preservation
Plumbing in the home
Antibiotics
Electricity
Plastics
Telephone
Reinforced concrete
Vacationing
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Airplane travel
Motion pictures
Birth pill
Computers
Genetic engineering
Automobiles
Nuclear capability
Space travel
Radio
Television
Tapwater supply
Antibiotics
Sewerage disposal
Plumbing in the home
Food preservation
Electricity
Plastics
Computers
Vacationing
Genetic engineering
Space travel
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die linie ziehen ist noch nicht so arg schwierig. aber die sortierung ist schon megaschwierig.