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NEUTRAL

                                                        November  3, 1992
                                               Revised: February  5, 1993
                                             Additions: December 19, 2003


                                     And further: individual
    Technology                       technologies, in
    isn't neutral.                   general, are rarely
                                     neutral.

If technology were merely                Before adopting a
neutral, there would be no               technique then, it's
reason to be interested in it.           worth investigating the
                                         biases built into it.
Overall, the advance of
technology has brought along                               DRUGS
with it advances in human
life span, and life style.

  Technology is biased                (To paraphrase an
  toward freedom.                     old Jerry Pournelle
                                      argument.)

It seems odd to me that many
people get the opposite
impression... too much media
attention and exaggeration of
some of the failures, and no
thought put into the obvious
successes, is my guess.

If technology is just another name for
the chief products and activities of
humanity, then hatred of technology
may be just another name for hatred of
humanity, a form of self-loathing.





                                                 (Parts of this were
                                                 originally posted to the
                                                 Future Culture list.)


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