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	Technological escalation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Technological escalation describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition, each side tends to employ continuing technological improvements to defeat the other.
		Technological escalation has been one of the most often-cited factors for the dominance of one civilization over another: those with flint, all else being equal, will defeat those with softer or duller stone spear heads, those with the bow defeat those with only the sling, those with the gun defeat those with the bow.
		Examples of commercial technological escalation are often indistinguishable from examples of pro-technology propaganda, of which the 1980s AI boom and much larger and global 1990s dotcom boom are the best known examples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technological_escalation (1983 words)

	Escalation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting worse step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, military presence and nuclear armament during the Cold War.
		(Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level.) The term is said to be originally coined by Herman Kahn.
		In psychology it is a change in behaviour, usually from stable or acceptable towards unstable or unacceptable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Escalation (106 words)

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		In economics, definitions or assumptions of progress or of growth often derive from one of the above assumptions.
		In warfare, technological escalation is often a feature of an arms race, and may result in new military technology.
		In fiction, fictional technology often plays a role in the story, especially in science fiction, which depends on such ideas.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/te/technology_1.html (283 words)

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		The first of these elements was a rapid escalation of the pace of accrued scientific knowledge about the world in which humans lived and the concomitant transfer of that knowledge into developments in the field of technology.
		For example, large landowners in Great Britain, responding to an escalating demand for food to feed the urban, industrial population, often decided to "enclose" the land on their estates in order to create large fields on which crops could be grown more efficiently and with a higher yield.
		The technological superiority, enormous personal and national wealth, and unbridled self-confidence prompted by the scientific, technological, and attitudinal components of triumphant modernization in Europe received its ultimate expression in the wave of European imperial conquest during the late nineteenth century, the results of which were described briefly at the beginning of this chapter.
	www.cla.wayne.edu /polisci/kdk/comparative/sources/black.htm (6734 words)

	Wikinfo \| Innovation
		Economic planners now tout innovation as the route to technological fixes to the crises of capitalism (for instance, achieving environmental sustainability and cleaning up damage), and it is a central element of many policies to increase competitiveness at corporate and national levels.
		This is criticized by many as being akin to technological escalation, technocracy and even militarism.
		Whether innovation is mainly supply-pushed (based on new technological possibilities) or demand-led (based on social needs and market requirements) has been a hotly-debated topic.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Innovation (549 words)

	The Fourth Rail: In Response to a Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Escalation, in other words, is a natural feature of warfare: but, although it continues until it breaks, it does eventually break.
		In spite of their continued escalation, the rate of coalition casualties is not increasing, but has rather peaked and dropped.
		Bill Roggio makes a convincing case that the latest escalation in "insurgent" violence in Iraq may be the enemy's gotterdamerung: It does appear that, in certain ways, enemy capability to cause mayhem is improving.
	billroggio.com /archives/2005/06/in_response_to.php (5970 words)

	Body Innovations -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Removed from article: :This is considered by many to be simply technological escalation, and akin to technocracy and even militarism.
		Piano construction is by now a rather conservative area; most of the technological advances were made by about 1880, and indeed it is possible that some contemporary piano buyers might actually be suspicious of pianos that are made differently from the older kind.
		In the early 21st century, the obvious way to raise the technological level of any mechanical device is to use digital technology to control it (compare the mid 19th century, where the obvious route was to make some of its parts from steel; e.g.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/20/body-innovations.html (1238 words)

	Block IP - Consumerium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To avoid this, the troll-friendly model argues that you should avoid w:technological escalation as it invites further escalation which can include worse trolls, hacking, and spreading an issue to many wikis, e.g.
		The only characteristic that really can be said to identify a troll is disinterest in, and rejection of, both of these models.
		Some claim the troll-friendly model derives from w:green politics which avoids technological escalation, looks for harms reduction methods, and fosters the political virtues.
	develop.consumerium.org /wiki/index.php/Soft_security (389 words)

	Ivan Illich - Tools for Conviviality
		The characteristic reaction of the sixties to the growing frustration was further technological and bureaucratic escalation.
		The technological capability to produce tools and materials that favor self-building had increased in the intervening decades, but social arrangements—like unions, codes, mortgage rules, and markets-had turned against this choice.
		Such a technological response to growing population, pollution, and affluence can be founded only on a further development of the presently prevailing institutionalization of values.
	todd.cleverchimp.com /tools_for_conviviality (21752 words)

	Radiological warfare
		However, for this very reason, it is subject to the dual regimes of medical and nuclear material controls, and is typically available only in such small quantities that any such use amounts to assassination or at most, mass murder, not effective warfare.
		Should some technological change make radioactive materials more widely available, however, this form of warfare or at least terrorism might well become quite popular.
		Should humans continue both technological escalation and wars between nation-states, radiological warfare might well be a far more safe and humane way to conduct extermination of large numbers of people, or the emptying out of troublesome political centres, than any of the various biological alternatives.
	www.mrsci.com /Radiobiology/Radiological_warfare.php (636 words)

	Xah: Industrial Society and its Future
		Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think it is inevitable.
		Technological escalation is poignantly illustrated in the satiral comics strip Spy vs Spy.
		(Paragraph 195) The economic and technological structure of a society are far more important than its political structure in determining the way the average man lives (see paragraphs 95, 119, and Notes 16, 18).
	xahlee.org /p/um/um-s24.html (4366 words)

	Category:Weapons - Military History Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After World War II, with the onset of the Cold War, the constant technological development of new weapons was institutionalized, as participants engaged in a constant race to develop weapons and counter-weapons.
		An important feature of industrial age warfare was technological escalation - an innovation could, and would, be rapidly matched by copying it, and often with yet another innovation to counter it.
		The technological escalation during World War I was profound, producing armed aircraft and tanks.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Category:Weapons (2432 words)

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		The accelerated expansion of the large international business conglomerates, their tendency toward merging and concentration, their operations under regional, intercontinental and planetary strategies, which have left calculations on the national level by the wayside, have been changing the basic parameters of the functioning of economies.
		The process is the harbinger of immense potential for technological development and improvement in the competitiveness and productivity levels of the business units involved, but at the same time it has proven to be infinitely complex and contradictory in areas such as unemployment, equality, poverty and social problems in general.
		Birdsall and Londoño (1997) have demonstrated that such is the weigh of inequality in social development that the high rate of poverty would be half of what it is, if the inequality levels (likewise high) of the early '70s had been maintained and if they hadn't risen as fast as they did.
	www.american.edu /maksoud/ZIPs/Kliksberg.doc (10382 words)

	Weapspac
		They noted the impact of technological advances, such as stealth aircraft and precision guided munitions, in destroying the Iraqi command and control structure and removing the Iraqi capability to maneuver on the battlefield.
		With technological superiority, America can threaten to escalate to prevent an unwanted turn of events (e.g., threaten to escalate to nuclear war against a non-nuclear adversary in response to a chemical attack).
		The technological development of weapons that apply force in, from, and through space must have the goal of fielding weapons as the technology matures.
	www.fas.org /spp/eprint/occppr06.htm (12966 words)

	Arms race - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		An Arms Race is a competition between two or more countries for military supremacy.
		Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation.
		A defining characteristic of an arms race is the attention given to relative, as opposed to absolute, gains made by each side's arms increase.Most arms races have occurred in the modern era.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Arms_race (429 words)

	Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture
		Technological escalation in war has been an important factor in destroying other societies, as well as strategic planning.
		Their star could could destablize, a neighboring star could go nova, or supernova, asteroid collisions [re: earth], geological instability [massive earthquakes or volcanic explosions], exhaustion of critical resources, pandemics, etc. The universe is a hostile environment.
		Chronos I’m aware of the other potential disaster that any living species is faced with, but the main factor I was addressing was the assumption that once a civilization becomes technologically advanced it faces yet another challenge, one that the Drake equation implies we’ll carelessly wipe ourselves out.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=44928 (2254 words)

	Truck and Barter: Arms Races
		Each party competes to produce superior numbers of weapons or superior military technology in a technological escalation.
		The term "arms race" is used generically to describe any competition where there is no absolute goal, only the relative goal...
		The term "arms race" is used generically to describe any competition where there is no absolute goal, only the relative goal of staying ahead of the other competitors.
	truckandbarter.com /mt/archives/000084.html (488 words)

	Collected Abstracts of papers published in SORITES
		«Technological Escalation and the Exploration Model of Natural Science»; by Nicholas Rescher (Issue 5, May 1996, pp.
		Technological Escalation and the Exploration Model of Natural Science by Nicholas Rescher (1) Our cognitive competence is well accounted for by our evolutionary niche in the world's scheme of things.
		The course of scientific progress accordingly involves a technological escalation -- an ascent to successively higher levels of technological sophistication that is unavoidably required for the production of the requisite observational data.
	www.filosoficas.unam.mx /~sorites/comprehe.htm (6957 words)

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		All I can see is an escalation of technological "solutions" and the inevitable counter solutions.
		For every technological solution there is its counter.
		We have to change the aspirations of spammers (they must be deluded if they think they can make a long-term living at this game, or maybe they just see it is a quick and easy buck).
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5557407&postID=108954343484064735 (384 words)

	Ades Design - Web Design and Development, Graphics and Logo Design. Photoshop, PHP, Dreamweaver and CSS Tutorials, ...
		It is also worthwhile to state that the status which women reached during the present era was not achieved due to the kindness of men or due to natural progress.
		It was rather achieved through a long struggle and sacrifice on woman's part and only when society needed her contribution and work, more especial!; during the two world wars, and due to the escalation of technological change.
		In the case of Islam such compassionate and dignified status was decreed, not because it reflects the environment of the seventh century, nor under the threat or pressure of women and their organizations, but rather because of its intrinsic truthfulness.
	www.adesdesign.net /php/islam/women_in_islam5.php (687 words)

	The Forum
		Simply that despite massive escalation of health spending, the health of the nation is on a downward spiral.
		The notion of health care has to change dramatically, and this entails shifting our attention away from technological escalation and hi tech medicine - and transforming the workforce that underpins this paradigm.
		Refocussing on the demand side of health and away from sexy supply side technology is a first necessary step.
	forum.onlineopinion.com.au /thread.asp?article=4098 (1166 words)

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		(2) U.S. activity escalated the crisis (The U.S./U.K. announcement on 8 October 1953 of their intention to withdraw their troops and relinquish the administration of Trieste to the Italian Government, in the Trieste II Crisis between Yugoslavia and Italy).
		(2) Global organization involvement escalated crisis (The dispatch of a UN Observer Group to Lebanon in 1958 exacerbated that crisis and delayed its termination, since the group was too small to cover the entire border area).
		(2) RSO involvement escalated the crisis (Warsaw Treaty Organization military exercises at the height of the Prague Spring Crisis of 1968 exacerbated that crisis).
	www.colorado.edu /IBS/GAD/spacetime/data/ICB1.html (9911 words)

	CNN Specials - Colombia: War Without End
		Then President Bill Clinton waived most of the human rights conditions imposed on the aid in advance of his landmark visit to Colombia on August 30.
		But even as the ties between the two governments become increasingly close, a debate is heating up over the escalation of U.S. military involvement in Colombia's battle against narcotics trafficking and guerrilla insurgencies.
		"Along with a technological escalation of the war, we are going to see the Colombian military cutting wide swaths through the countryside with extensive human rights abuses," Bagley said.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/colombia.noframes/story/essays/clark (1720 words)

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		This variable assesses the effect of the outcome of a crisis on the tension level among the adversaries.
		(1) Tension escalation - crisis recurred among the principal adversaries during the subsequent five-year period (The Gaza Raid-Czech Arms Crisis of 1955-56 between Israel and Egypt was followed in October 1956 by the Suez-Sinai Crisis).
		(6) Technological escalation of a war (German aerial bombing of the U.K. in 1940 constituted the Battle of Britain intra-war crisis).
	www.colorado.edu /IBS/GAD/spacetime/data/ICB2.html (8852 words)

	00:1 Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy: Book Review: Genes, Women, Equality
		Her use of the concept "feminist" is so broad it includes even "Feminists for Life" (a right wing organization that coopts feminist rhetoric to advance an antithetical agenda).
		Despite her effort to include multiple feminist viewpoints, the many feminists who have voiced serious reservations about the rapid escalation of technological interventions surrounding pregnancy aren’t given a hearing.
		The book is written principally from the perspective of a clinical bioethicist whose focus is concentrated on the particular issues that have arisen within the health delivery system.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/publications/newsletters/v00n1/feminism/12.asp (1544 words)

	A weapon is a tool to damage life or property and...
		"See military technology during World War I military technology during World War I for a detailed discussion." An important feature of industrial age warfare was technological escalation technological escalation - an innovation could, and would, be rapidly matched by copying it, and often with yet another innovation to counter it.
		The technological escalation during World War I technological escalation during World War I was profound, and produced armed aircraft, the hand grenade hand grenade, and the tank tank.
		List of martial arts weapons List of martial arts weapons See also toy weapons toy weapons, fictional technology fictional technology, technological escalation technological escalation, List of fictional weapons List of fictional weapons
	www.biodatabase.de /weapon (1245 words)

	CNN - Professor Bruce Bagley on the crisis in Colombia - August 31, 2000
		To the extent that U.S. helicopters -- Clinton has promised 60 -- are used, the probability is that the FARC guerillas will respond with a technological escalation of the war.
		So, even though Colombia is not Vietnam, the possibility of a bloody and long conflict in which the U.S. has an escalating role is very high.
		Given that the U.S. is now authorized to send 500 military advisors and 300 civilian subcontractors means that we could see body bags coming back with Americans from Colombia in the near future.
	www.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/8/31/bagley (2147 words)

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