Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.961003225023.54209B-100000@paris> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:55:22 -0600 From: "J.C. Wandemberg" <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: ideas of "appropriate technology" still respected? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Ian Hodur wrote:> 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.
It is beyond me how can anybody, at the dawn of the 21st century give technology a 'mind' of its own so as to categorized it as "bad" or "good".
Technology, just like any THING is NEITHER good NOR bad in and of itself. It is the use we HUMANS make of it (or HOW we create it) which can be catergorized as either.
Cheers!
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