Message-ID: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.961003163949.24056B-100000@axe.humboldt.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:44:00 -0700 From: Ian Hodur <mailto:ilh1@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU> Subject: Re: ideas of "appropriate technology" still respected? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
I would aruge technology is "bad". It provides humankind with the
potential to do massive good (medicine) and massive harm (toxic waste).
The fault in technology is that it provides access to power faster than
cultures can adapt to control it (norms, etc.) and do "good" with it.
Technology demands a pace that we as a specis are not suited to.
ian hodur
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Tu and Bob Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, William J. Walker, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Technology is only the knowledge and resources to make or do
> ÿ> something.
>
> > Let's stop blaming the technology for what people do with it.
>
> Amen! Thank you Mr. Walker.
>
> Technology is no more bad/inappropriate or good/appropriate than
> automobiles, baseball bats, alcohol or guns.
>
> Automobiles and alcohol are involved in killing and maiming more people
> than baseball bats and guns. Does that mean that automobiles and alcohol
> are less appropriate than baseball bats and guns?
>
> Isn't it curious that there one "good" and one "bad" thing in the
> "inappropriate" and "appropriate" categories?
>
> Bob (only)
> (Don't blame my co account holder for this post.)
>