How Technology Could Contribute to a Sustainable World

Definition of culture, technology, knowledge. Implications of technology on future generations; technology as "tools" to implement science; health care, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence. Historical perspective and pitfalls of past projections of "societal consequences of technological developments." Technology as a social construction. Projections of sustainable world with perfect balance of energy, health, and agriculture; possible "utopias" Agoria, Ecodemia, Arcadia.