Barbour and Dyson's perspectives on technology and social justice

Freedom and Social Justice

Barbour's "Philosophy and Human Values, and Dyson's "Technology and Social Justice"

Barbour and Dyson's ideas about freedom and social justice, how these ideas relate to technology?

Ian Graeme Barbour

Graeme Barbour is a known scholar who relayed the relationship between religion and science. He made cognition that religion is related to science in various ways. In his "critical realism" term, Graeme Barbour exemplified that religion and science shares certain similarities and differences in their basic structures. This is in relation to the subjective and objective features in religion and science. For instance, the two bodies entangle subjective entities like comprehensible theories dealing with falsification, theory, and non-relevance to rules in choosing paradigms. Moreover, religion and science relate on objective features like related data, evidence that support or dispute a theory, and criteria dependent on the paradigms used.

Graeme Barbour's ideas are related to technology. Graeme Barbour considers critical realism in relation to the interpretation of theories of science, most of which are relayed through practical exemplifications. For instance, naive realism and instrumentalism are related to technological applications used in computer and the Internet. Through technological approaches, Graeme Barbour perceives that scientific theories yield abstract, particle, and referenced knowledge through its models and metaphors. Graeme Barbour lays most of his comparisons to methods of research and inquiry. Through this, he managed to explore theological meanings in the big bang theory and quantum physics. His lectures extended to agriculture, computers, cloning, energy, and technology policies in the human society. Therefore, most of his teachings and theories were related to technology (Barbour, 2008).

Technology of my interaction

The technology of my daily interaction is the Internet technology. The Internet is a new and sumptuous technology that has taken the world by a great swift. Internet refers to online availability, transportation, and access of information throughout the world powered by computer hardware and software skills and applications. Communication systems and appliances have become relevant to human life with the help of the internet. The world has been united in transport and communication catapulted by the presence Internet (Winston & Edelbach, 2012).

How Internet technology can be used as a means of enabling participation or contributor of social justice

Through the Internet, people interact globally. Through this interaction, information is transferred from one individual to another. Therefore, this technological facet can be used to engage people in social and transformational information used in building human interactions and living. Through the Internet, it is possible to build online and global families that are driven by common goals and aspirations. For instance, peace, unity, social stability, growth and development can be established and fostered through the Internet. Some applications like Facebook and Twitter are some of the social media channels used to unite social strands in the world. In the end, social justice is affirmed in the world.