The question now is "does technological advance lead to more repression and domination?" By "Technology", Marcuse means the mode of production or the totality of instruments, devices, etc.
Heidegger linked the accelerating domination of technology in the 20th century with the idea that modern humanity faces a spiritual crisis.
The Catholic Church, for example, argues that by its very nature in vitro fertilisation dissociates the sexual act from the procreative act, involving the domination of technology over the genesis of the human person; depriving the child of being conceived by natural means as the fruit of love.
"Flourishing communities in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia have grown considerably over recent years and are now beginning to challenge Silicon Valley's domination in technology innovation," the report said.
Microsoft, whose domination of the technology industry provoked a landmark federal antitrust case, is crying foul against Google and urging European Union antitrust officials to go after the search giant.
Whether it's Google Search butting out Yelp local results or Facebook's approach to privacy, we've seen how domination of a technology space by one company leaves the masses with less power.
Collectively, Tippett's writings define his aesthetic standpoint, which Clarke summarises thus: "Tippett holds that art's role in post-Enlightenment culture is to offer a corrective to society's spiritually injurious domination by mass technology.
One analyst said Lockheed's traditional domination of the space technology race, starting in the 1950's, had made it complacent as Boeing was ramping up operations in the 1990's.
Microsoft is now the underdog to Google in the game of technology world domination.
Though superior iPod design + technology = world domination, I fear that the head of Apple design, Jonathan Ive, gave his all to the sleek rectangular units, and left those buds and strings just hanging.
