Technology Transfer and Culture  (English, Hardcover, Reena Thakur Patra)

This book discusses philosophical issues of technology transfer and culture where technology transfer is related to an understanding of the consequences of technological impacts relating to a given culture, society and human existence. Accordingly, it is argued that technological development though takes place without any context, yet the underpinning of any given technology has certain impact on the cultural environment of technological development. It is well known that the past millennium which is known for its innovations of technology-transfer have always been grasped not through modernization but by cultural embedding. Though this might vary from place to place but in general it shows an identical development. The fact is that the cultural embedding that we have specified is not identified with culture-transfer nor does it lead to a broad modernization but to a form of development with cultural amendments. Technological transformation of societies will not yield to the desired results if there is no simultaneous progress in the culture transfer which is said to be the exclusive basis of moral transformation of a society. Therefore, the important aspect in technology-transfer is that whenever some form of technology is transferred by way of import or export, it carries along with it a whole set of human relationships.