Technical knowledge: features and social functions of technology, sources of technical knowledge, creators of technical knowledge, dissemination of technical knowledge, scientific-technical potential, science and technology relationship. Relationship between technology and society: the impact of society on technical development and the impact of technical sciences on the development of society. Industrial and information society. The impact of technology on life, awareness and culture. Technology and globalization: causes and dimensions of globalization, technological gap, brain drain. Technology and work organization: flexible production, network organizations, knowledge economy, electronic economy. Technical sciences and work: reduction of working hours, change of work content, decline of the work importance. Technology and alienation at work: the impact of technology, forms of alienation, humanization of labour. Mass media and communications: global television, the impact of television on society, media theories, mobile telephony and the Internet, the impact of the Internet on society, media imperialism, mass culture, cyber criminal. Technology and education: education and new communication technologies, education and technological gap, virtual universities, intelligence and educational success. Technology and democracy: global media and liberal democracy, media and virtual reality, resistance and alternatives to global media. Technology and ecological crisis: global warming, genetically modified food, technical risks, technical society as risky. Technical intelligence: social status and impact, engineering ethics.