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- The Promethean gap (German: prometheische Gefälle) is a concept concerning the relations of humans and technology and a growing "asynchronization" between them. In popular formulations, the gap refers to an inability or incapacity of human faculties to imagine the effects of the technologies that humans produce, specifically the negative effects. The concept originated with philosopher Günther Anders in the 1950s and for him, an extreme test case was the atomic bomb and its use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a symbol of the larger technology revolution that the 20th century was witnessing. The gap has been extended to and understood within multiple variations – a gap between production and ideology; production and imagination; production and need; production and use; technology and the body; doing and imagining; and doing and feeling. The gap can also be seen in areas such as law and in the actions of legislatures and policymakers. Various authors use different words to explain Gefälle, accordingly resulting in Promethean divide, Promethean disjunction, Promethean discrepancy, Promethean gradient, Promethean slope, Promethean decline, Promethean incline, Promethean disparity, Promethean lag, and Promethean differential. (en)
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- Hecker (en)
- Dawsey (en)
- Gagliardi (en)
- Andres, The Obsolescence of Man (en)
- Schraube (en)
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- He later termed this gulf the "prometheische Gefälle" in The Obsolescence of Human Beings (en)
- "das Gefälle zwischen Machen und Vorstellen; das zwischen Tun und Fühlen; das zwischen Wissen und Gewissen; und schließlich und vor allem das zwischen dem produzierten Gerät und dem Leib des Menschen". DeepL Translator translation: the difference between doing and imagining; that between doing and feeling; that between knowing and conscience; and finally, and above all, that between the produced device and the human body (en)
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- Muller (en)
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- Andres, The Obsolescence of Man (en)
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- Introduction: The Three Industrial Revolutions § 3. Variations on the "Promethean Disjunction" (en)
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- The Promethean gap (German: prometheische Gefälle) is a concept concerning the relations of humans and technology and a growing "asynchronization" between them. In popular formulations, the gap refers to an inability or incapacity of human faculties to imagine the effects of the technologies that humans produce, specifically the negative effects. The concept originated with philosopher Günther Anders in the 1950s and for him, an extreme test case was the atomic bomb and its use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a symbol of the larger technology revolution that the 20th century was witnessing. The gap has been extended to and understood within multiple variations – a gap between production and ideology; production and imagination; production and need; production and use; technology and the (en)
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