{"id":6510,"date":"2019-11-25T04:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2019-11-25T05:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:50:30","slug":"whither-only-the-techne-hand-of-clapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/whither-only-the-techne-hand-of-clapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither only the techne hand of clapping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_45_1 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" area-label=\"ez-toc-toggle-icon-1\"><label for=\"item-69f1663a5b960\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><input  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-69f1663a5b960\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/whither-only-the-techne-hand-of-clapping\/#Episteme\" title=\"Episteme\">Episteme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/whither-only-the-techne-hand-of-clapping\/#Techne\" title=\"Techn\u00e9\">Techn\u00e9<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/whither-only-the-techne-hand-of-clapping\/#REFERENCES\" title=\"REFERENCES\u00a0\">REFERENCES\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Dr. Jeremy Horne writes about the importance of theoretical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/ensuring-reproducibility-in-ai-driven-research-how-freelance-experts-can-help-in-biotech-and-healthcare\/\">research<\/a> and &#8216;thinking&#8217; in a world driven by technology and &#8216;making&#8217;. Consult him for a research or writing project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/find-an-expert\/jeremy-horne\/?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Post&amp;utm_campaign=Techne\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obsession with technology appears to dominate our world.\u00a0 Publishers, the schools, media, and venues where worker meets employer, focus on gadgets, &#8220;features&#8221;, and glitz.\u00a0 Rare is the call for theoretical research, disparagingly often called &#8220;blue sky&#8221; exploration. Philosophy is conspicuously absent in most school curriculums as a requirement.\u00a0 Requests for proposals and research grants are more common in creating objects than thinking about them. On a larger scale, we hear protests about what environmental regulations designed to help the planet will do to &#8220;the economy&#8221;.\u00a0 Never mind that without an environment this holy &#8220;economy&#8221; would never exist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Technology is the response to the human call to make life easier, but without a decent educational background, one is handicapped in appreciating the why of technology.<\/strong>\u00a0 While upscale &#8220;back-to-the-landers&#8221;, and those upset with &#8220;loose morals&#8221; may pine for the &#8220;good old days&#8221;, the hard worker knows what it is like to wash clothes by the river, walk behind a plow horse, or chop wood for the fireplace.\u00a0 Rather than the Pony Express, we have the smartphone. Supercomputers literally have quantum leapfrogged over the adding machine. Horses don&#8217;t fly to space stations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humanity (especially the youth with poor communications skills), tritely applies the word &#8220;awesome&#8221; and &#8220;cool&#8221; to describe these developments, but the underpinning may just be at best a vacuum, one that is characterized by increasing complexity and driven by Rene Descartes.\u00a0 This 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century philosopher stated in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discourse on Method<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that to understanding anything, we need &#8220;&#8230;.to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution. &#8230;by showing that we cannot conceive body unless as divisible.\u201d (Descartes, 1641, p. 122).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeated subdivision results in a world requiring management beyond the capacity of single individuals, and, arguably even groups of them [Homer-Dixon, 2006; Tainter, 2003.].\u00a0 One faces mere detail without any framework for that management. Cleverness, as opposed to smartness, in creating that detail is not equated to human needs assessment or humanity&#8217;s effect on the environment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The symptoms of obsessing over technology are evidence of a deeper issue of our not reflecting on ourselves and, as it turns out, is leading to species suicide [Holocene Extinction, 2019].\u00a0<\/strong> A radical conclusion? Yes. A way of avoiding it? Yes. First, let us inspect a few main salient facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge and technological responses to it have been compressing such that we ultimately will arrive at a &#8220;technological singularity&#8221; [Eden and Moor, 2012], where our inability to manage it will cause civilization to collapse<\/span><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental degradation has been increasing at an ever-increasing rate, evidenced by global warming, resource depletion, and radical income stratification, evidence of which can be gleaned easily from peer-reviewed sources by the less lazy and more astute of our species.\u00a0 Only the brain-dead, uneducated, political reactionary ideologues, and those profiting from such degradation will deny this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This degradation is threatening the very existence of the human species, as a search for &#8220;Sixth Great Extinction&#8221;, or &#8220;Holocene Extinction&#8221; will show.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing focus on technology is partly responsible for the decline in the quality education necessary to solve world problems, as well as the deterioration of quality peer review [Education quality, 2019)].\u00a0 <strong>Half of US adults cannot read past the 8<\/strong><\/span><strong>th<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> grade<\/strong> [Adult literacy, 2019]!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overpopulation has resulted primarily (aside from poverty) from medical advances and agricultural technology [Bavel, 2013].<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quick perusal of news sources will reveal worldwide dissatisfaction with governments failing to address basic human needs and their incompetence, lack of will, or just plain greed in the face of mounting social and environmental problems.\u00a0 Such results in a more fractious world fraught with the enhanced (through technology) human capacity to destroy itself.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are at the proverbial crossroads, where scientists are telling us that if we fail to respond adequately to these challenges now, points of no return will be reached [UN, 2019] and we will no longer exist as a species.\u00a0 How would such a solution appear?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with other problem-solving situations, there are three parts to the solution.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) We must recognize that there is a problem.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) Those affected have to muster the will to a solution.<br \/>\n3) They also must be able to formulate an effective one.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Yet, there is a vital missing component. Instead of a child&#8217;s tricycle, we have a tank. Four wheels are required, not three, and the fourth is ethos.<\/strong> We have to think beyond Descartes&#8217; particulars and reflect upon our value environment and how it comes to be.\u00a0 There is no &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; or yet another technological fix. More explicitly, this species will have to look long and deep into that mirror and ask &#8220;what is it all about?&#8221; Is it about narcissism and ingratiating ourselves? Animals are quite capable of that. What is it that distinguishes us from the rest of the species? What about the &#8220;<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sapiens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; part of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homo sapiens sapiens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6511 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/star-gazing-1149228_1280-300x200@2x.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Failing introspection, all the obsessing about the gadgets will be in a vacuum, as we no longer will be around. The increasing detail of technological development causes a corresponding disintegration of focus.\u00a0 Persistently looking at a smartphone or &#8220;following&#8221; others on social media is just noise and no signal. The whole is compromised by the parts, rather than being balanced.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is all this true?\u00a0 Technology exists because of what generates it: science.\u00a0 Technology is practice of the theory generated by science.\u00a0 Training is for those wanting to learn about technology. Education is for the scientist.\u00a0 Technology concerns application; science is about theory. Yet these two poles often are confabulated or used interchangeably, like those in training being &#8220;educated&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distinguishing the two extends back to Classical Greek times, where etymology provides a clue. Let&#8217;s look closely at:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Episteme\"><\/span><b>Episteme<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230;etymologically derived from the Ancient Greek word \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b7 for knowledge or science, which comes from the verb \u1f10\u03c0\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9, &#8220;to know&#8221;. In Plato&#8217;s terminology episteme means knowledge, as in &#8220;justified true belief&#8221;, in contrast to doxa, common belief or opinion. The word epistemology, meaning the study of knowledge, is derived from episteme. [23]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Techne\"><\/span><b>Techn\u00e9<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c&#8230;etymologically derived from the Greek word \u03c4\u03ad\u03c7\u03bd\u03b7 (Ancient Greek: [t\u00e9k\u02b0n\u025b\u02d0], Modern Greek: [\u02c8texni] ( listen)), that is often translated as &#8220;craftsmanship&#8221;, &#8220;craft&#8221;, or &#8220;art&#8221;.\u201d [Techne, 2019]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each exists because of the other.\u00a0 Life, itself, is like this, and our realizing it will enable us to save this species.\u00a0 Consider simple relationships like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">up \u2013 down<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hot \u2013 cold<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">left &#8211; right<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yes \u2013 no<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for \u2013 against<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">negative \u2013 positive,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conceptually, each of these describes boundaries for the gradients in-between, as in tepid, with hot on one end, and cold on the other.\u00a0 Most importantly, one would not exist without the other. The only way we can see the markings on the chalkboard is by the background. Such apprehension is through the unity of opposites, or dialectic.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Techne<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exists because of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">episteme<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and vice versa.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Techne<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by itself has no content.\u00a0 Neither does <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">episteme<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have any content without that which expresses it, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">techne<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 On a more abstract level, an individual cannot exist without society, and society needs individuals. Each thing has a context, a history, and a becoming. One is in terms of the other, is dynamic, and forms the basis of organicity, each organ contributing to the life of the organism. Like the organs not competing with each other but cooperating, so individuals can survive only if they work together as a whole that can preserve their individuality.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6514\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6514\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6514 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hand-523231_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hand-523231_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hand-523231_640-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hand-523231_640-300x165@2x.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Techne exists because of episteme and vice versa<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to realize the co-equality of the episteme with the techne, but this lesson extends to human enablement of the two. I propose the following. For every article, news item, or discussion about the latest technological advance, there should be a corresponding treatment of the non-material reason underscoring it. How is the latest &#8220;upgrade&#8221; to computer software an enhancement of understanding ourselves? Or, is mere commercial interest the reason? If the latter, we had better pay attention to the consequences, as in strain on the environment, income stratification (as in how to produce these &#8220;novelties&#8221; humanely, as well as economically), and who really benefits and why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>If there is to be cheering for technology, there also must be hand-clapping for science.\u00a0<\/strong> For such to happen, reflection on ourselves and a high-road ethos emanating from it must be light the context.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"REFERENCES\"><\/span><b>REFERENCES\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(All websites accessed 22 November 2019)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Adult literacy (2019).\u00a0 Literacy Project Foundation (2019).\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/literacyprojectfoundation.org\/community\/statistics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/literacyprojectfoundation.org\/community\/statistics\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Van Bavel J. (2013). The world population explosion: causes, backgrounds and -projections for the future. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facts, views &amp; vision in ObGyn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(4), 281\u2013291.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3987379\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Eden, Amnon H.; Moor, James H. (2012). Singularity hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 1\u20132. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISBN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Education quality (2019).\u00a0 eg:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Geographic Society (2002).\u00a0 \u201cNational Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Survey&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestudentroom.co.uk\/attachment.php?attachmentid=301605&amp;d=1405465338\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.thestudentroom.co.uk\/attachment.php?attachmentid=301605&amp;d.<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2002\/11\/geography-survey-illiteracy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2002\/11\/geography-survey-illiteracy\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Geographic Society (2006).\u00a0 \u201cNational Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study&#8221;\u00a0 The National Geographic Education Foundation National Geographic Society May 2006\u00a0 May 2006 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/roper2006\/pdf\/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/roper2006\/pdf\/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Science Foundation (2014).\u00a0 \u201cScience and Engineering Indicators 2014\u201d\u00a0 Chapter 7 Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding\u00a0 P. 7-23 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/seind14\/content\/chapter-7\/chapter-7.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/seind14\/content\/chapter-7\/chapter-7.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Survey (2017). \u00a0 \u201cEpidemic: Responding To America\u2019s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis\u201d\u00a0 Executive Office of the President of the United States. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/pdffiles1\/ondcp\/rx_abuse_plan.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/pdffiles1\/ondcp\/rx_abuse_plan.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 National Criminal Justice Referral Service (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> )\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCES, (2009).\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic Reading Skills and the Literacy of America\u2019s Least Literate Adults<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. National Center for Educational Statistics. \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2009\/2009481.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2009\/2009481.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Episteme (2019).\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Episteme\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Episteme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6. 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Science. <\/span><\/i><b><i>345<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (6195): 401\u2013406. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibcode\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bibcode<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2014Sci...345..401D\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2014Sci&#8230;345..401D<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_object_identifier\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doi<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126%2Fscience.1251817\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10.1126\/science.1251817<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PubMed_Identifier\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PMID<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25061202\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25061202<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Pimm, S. 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Homer-Dixon, Thomas (2007). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Upside of Down<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Washington, DC: Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8. Tainter, J. A. (2003). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=M4H-02d9oE0C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Collapse Of Complex Societies<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 New York &amp; Cambridge, UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9. Techne (2019).\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Techne\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Techne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10. UN (2019).\u00a0 World \u2018Nearing Critical Point of No Return\u2019 on Climate Change, Delegate Warns, as Second Committee Debates Sustainable Development.. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/un-bodies\/general-assembly\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Assembly<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/un-bodies\/second-committee\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second Committee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Seventy-third Session, 12th &amp; 13th Meetings (AM &amp; PM) \u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2018\/gaef3500.doc.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2018\/gaef3500.doc.htm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeremy Horne writes about the importance of theoretical research and &#8216;thinking&#8217; in a world driven by technology and &#8216;making&#8217;. 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