Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the population had been properly protected from "natural and technological catastrophes".
Artist Gregory Chatonsky, whose work deals with the technological catastrophes facing our culture, explores this question with his latest project, It's Not Really You. .
In our disenchanted, post-religious, ultra-technological era, catastrophes can no longer be rendered meaningful as part of a natural cycle or as an expression of divine wrath.
What's wonderful about "E.T". in its original 1982 version — the one that's lovingly restored here — is how it captures American childhood before the social-political catastrophes, technological revolutions, and pop-psychology manias of the last thirty years.
For Florence, McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Amsterdam have moments of uncomfortable humour which he has developed into the full-blown satire of Solar, with its short, fat, philandering physicist in search of a technological fix to looming climate catastrophe – a character described by Florence as "a grotesque version of us".
Yet the tidal wave of Westernization also brought about — along with the glory of economic and technological transformation — confusion, defeatism and even catastrophe to non-Western civilizations.
Concerned parent Susannah tries instead to engage him with real issues – such as Syria – but George is tempted by a highly technological creative approach that leads to catastrophe for his students.
The computer scientist in him may revel in the technological marvels, but the novelist envisions catastrophes and worries about the fate of not-so-marvelous humans like Robert Gu, the protagonist of Dr. Vinge's latest novel, "Rainbows End".
OO Media Contribute to 'Hope Gap' on Climate Change - by emphasizing the catastrophes and under-reporting the technological and political solutions.
