Političke dimenzije razvoja tehnike. Skica problema s političkoznanstvenog gledišta
Political Dimensions of Technological Advancement

Summary/Abstract: The economy-politics relationship has never beet distinguished by a complete autonomy of "purely" political activity. However, the degree of "relative autonomy" of political action has always been a crucial issue in democratic societies. The decisive question, therefore, is whether the new technology is destroying even this "relative autonomy" of politics? The revolutionary developments in modern technology are rocking at the very foundations of the "work society", and thereby also at the state, which has evolved on their basis. The author first analyzes the effects of the complex technological output on the -work society-: the shorter and flexible working hours, the need for retraining and for a vocational training that meets the needs of modem technology, the phenomenon of mass unemployment caused by technology as the chief social consequence of technological development, etc. The author also examines the effects of new technical breakthroughs on the state, or public, sphere of the life of communities, thus touching upon the fundamental issue of the fate of the existing structures and mechanisms of the democratic state in general.

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