Impacts of Science and Technology on War

Topics: Science, Technology and Military Policy, First Wave, Second Wave War and Third Wave War and Futuristic Wars

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 Progression in weapons also has an extensive effect on the environment. New technology means more invention and more utilization. 

Military policy

The outbreak of World War II was in many ways an unprecedented crisis for Socialist organizations. Democratic Socialists had traditionally been anti-war to the point of pacifism, while revolutionary Socialists had opposed wars waged by openly capitalistic regimes on the basis that the only violence worth pursuing was rooted in the class struggle, not between opposing groups of capitalists.

Each wave, or civilization phase, develops its own "super- ideology," or Zeitgeist, with which it explains reality and justifies its own existence. This ideology impacts all the spheres which make up a civilization phase: 

• The first wave of transformation

began when some prescient person
about 10,000 years ago, probably a
woman, planted and nurtured a seed.
The age of agriculture began; its
significance was that people moved
from nomadic wandering and
hunting and began to cluster into
villages and develop culture.

• The second wave was an expression

of machine muscle. The Industrial
Revolution began in the 1700s and
gathered steam after America’s Civil
War. People began to leave the
peasant culture of farming to come
to work in city factories. It
culminated in the Second World
War, a clash of smokestack
juggernauts, and the explosion of the
atomic bombs over Japan.

•  Third wave, based not on

muscle but on mind. It is what we
variously call the information or
knowledge age, and while it is
powerfully driven by information
technology, it has co-drivers as well,
among them social demands
worldwide for greater freedom and
individuation.

Narrative/ Things I learned

Upgrading technology will expand the manufacture of weapons, and atomic bombs when these weapons will be confirmed and used; then the environment will get poisoned.With the improvement of technology there is also improvement in the field of war through the designed atomic bombs and weapons that can destroy a certain area. I am not impressed with the advancement of it because it means one thing, Earth maybe destroyed by a highly technological bombs that is a product of science.

Source/s:

Toffler’s
Waves
Why Alvin Toffler’s
Third Wave Matters
by Michael Finley