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In Europe sceptical attitudes towards technology became more prominent in the 1970s , e.g. in the anti-nuclear movements. In the eyes of some critics, the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986 seemed to confirm the impossibility of controlling large scale technology. The Internet euphoria of the 1990s favored more positive attitudes toward technlogy. Nevertheless fears about the increased possibilities of technlogical Surveillance are still widespread. Prominent authors elaborating a critique of technology are, e.g.. Günther Anders , Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford . In a wider sense some writings of Martin Heidegger and the critical History Of Technology ( David F. Noble ) are also part of the critique of technology. The critique of technology is a variant of the Critique Of Progress which dates back at least to Rousseau . The critique of technology overlaps with the Philosophy Of Technology but whereas the latter tries to establish itself as an academic discipline the critique of technology is basically a political project, not limited to Academia . It features prominently in Neomarxism ( Herbert Marcuse ), Ecofeminism ( Vandana Shiva ) and in Postdevelopment ( Ivan Illich ) FURTHER READING
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