He warns that these technologies introduce unprecedented new challenges to human beings, including the possibility of the permanent alteration of our biological nature. These concerns are shared by other philosophers, scientists and public intellectuals who have written about similar issues (e.g. Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, William Joy, and Michael Sandel). Some of the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Goethe's Faust, Faust selling his soul to the devil in return for power over the physical world is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. Innovations continued through the Middle Ages with innovations such as silk-manufacture , the horse collar and horseshoes in the first few hundred years after the 5th-century fall of the Roma
Theories of technology often attempt to predict the future of technology based on the high technology and science of the time. As with all predictions of the future, however, technology is uncertain. Innovations continued through the Middle Ages with innovations such as silk-manufacture , the horse collar and horseshoes in the first few hundred years after the 5th-century fall of the Roman Empire. Ideally, given their advantages, such policy changes will stay in place after the initial pandemic ends. Innovators and entrepreneurs are thinking of creative solutions to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and policymakers should look to remove regulatory red tape that may prevent such response. If such regulations are unnecessary during a time of crisis, then policymakers should reconsider the purpose behind them more generally. Also Read How Technology Reshaped Civic Engagement By Mickeel Allen, Alvernia University Technologies are not usually exclusively products of science, becau