society: Political influences, Economic influences, and MoralCultural

influences. The political influences consist of the governmental body

of that society and the laws and regulations set by this governing

group. The moralcultural influences consist of the "voluntary

associations" of a society: the churches, media, education systems,

the people in this society. The final influence being the economic

influence, which is the rate of employment, GDP, incidence of poverty,

and structure of economic activity. Novak made this theory into an

object, a "triangle" of sorts, with each influence being a point on

this "triangle." Novak goes on later in his theory to deal with other

influences, but as other dimensions. What Novak appears to have missed

in his theory is another very important influence on society that

influences, and is influenced by the other points of this "triangle,"

technology. The Middle Ages did come up with a few inventions, such as

windmills and horseshoes, but technological process was imperceptible

compared with what is happening now. Very soon, a fiber the diameter

of a human hair will be able to transmit, in

recognized that technology is important for growth, but only in the

different societies. It has caused wars, and prevented them too. The

destroy those that chose not to use technology. Society has also been

Civil War. Because of the cotton gin, production of cotton rose and

in price also encourages more people to buy more technology, allowing

demand or the ideas for technology, progress is slowed. Unemployment

Novak stated that there were three influences on any society:

medical projects. Without adequate funding from a governmental agency,

Terrorist hackers could cause more damage on a governmental body's

These g! roups help stop a technology by petition, debating, and by

has been around for many years, but the idea of cyber-terrorism has

greatly influenced by technology in positive and negative ways, and

create a vast army of the unemployed. In the late 1940s, Nobert

moralcultural influences on technology. What would life be without

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