Message-ID: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.961004143803.1101A-100000@axe.humboldt.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 14:39:00 -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>
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, J.C. Wandemberg wrote: > 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".
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> 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.
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--So then the black plauge was good? It has no mind but i wouldn't say that in was 'NIETHER good NOR bad'.
> Cheers!
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