Technical knowledge: characteristics and special technical functions, sources of technical knowledge, creators of technical knowledge, spreading of the technical knowledge, scientific-technical potential, relationship between science and technique. Relationship between technique and society: social impact on the technical development and technical impact on the social development – Industrial and Informatics society. Technical impact on life, awareness and culture. Technique and globalization: causes and dimensions of globalization, technological gap, brain drain; Technique and working organization: flexible production, network organizations, knowledge economy, electronic economy. Technique and work: shortening the working hours, change of working contents, decline of the work importance. Technique and alienation in work: technical impact on the alienation in work, forms of alienation, humanization of work. Mass media and communications: global television, television impact on the society, theory of media, mobile telephony and internet, internet impact on the society, media imperialism, mass culture, cyber criminal. Technique and education: education and new communication technologies, education and technological gap, virtual universities, intelligence and educational success. Technique and democracy: global media and spreading of the liberal democracy, media and virtual reality, resistance and alternative to global media. Technique and ecological crisis: global working, genetically modified food, technical risks, technical society as a risky society. Technical intelligence: social position and impact, engineering ethics.