Message-ID: <199610051422.KAA07238@purple> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 10:22:41 -0400 From: Elin Whitney-Smith <mailto:elin@TMN.COM> Subject: Re: ideas of "appropriate technology" still respected? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Spears, plows, sticks, carrying baskets are all technology. Too often we avoid taking responsibility for political and economic action by blaming technology instead of acting against injustice.elin Elin Whitney-Smith mailto:elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/elin
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>On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Reinaldo Vicini wrote:
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>> Dear Gary and friends:
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>> You have the choice. In fact you can start right now. Give it a try for a
>> week. Hey, with all bad things of cars and computers, It is inevitable!
>> They have more benefits than disadvantages. They need adjustments. However,
>> we have freedom. We can travel anywhere you like and comunicate with
>> anywhere we like -you know as much as I do as colleagues, as I perceive it
>> from your signature, that computers have not made us really as productive
>> as manufacturers are trying us think-.
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>> Reinaldo Vicini
>> mailto:interext@anditel.andinet.lat.net
>> http://www.colomsat.net.co/rotarios.bogota
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>> Como todas las cosas están llenas de mi alma
>> emerges de las cosas, llena de alma mía.
>> Mariposa de sueño, te pareces a mi alma,
>> y te pareces a la palabra melancolía
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>> Poema 15 - Fragmento Pablo Neruda
>> 20 Poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
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>> #From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM>
>> The same is true of cars. They help me get around better, but they also
>> pollute the air, require enormous megatechnological infrastructures to
>> support them, increase the cost of living, kill zillions of people on the
>> highways, result in burning up of natural resources at insane rates, lead
>> to wars for scarce petroleum resources, etc. etc. etc. Bottom line for me
>> is, if I had a choice, I'd have opted not to have had
>> any of these wonderful conveniences of modern technology. They price we
>> pay as a society is too damn high!!!!#
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