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This-essay is a7805233.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TECHNOLOGICAL FIXES 780523 It is reasonable to assume that the early use of simple hand-held tools gave evolutionary advantages to those who used them---and so promoted the development of agile hands and the upright posture. Early techniques thus interacted with the evolutionary process. Evolution facilitated further development of the ability to use tools, and vice versa. There are some modern problems which may be solved by the development and use of new technologies, or by the development and use of non-technological ways of coping. Our transportation problems may be "solved" technologically via computer-dispatched carriers, highways, mass-transit, etc.; or we may transform our transportation problems through the evolution of our self- perceptions, family structures, neighborhoods, relationships between homes and work-places, placement of retail centers, organization of social services, etc. The technological fixes tend to be far more consumptive of scarce physical resources than would be the wise development of human resources and locations of human activities. In the face of scarcity of physical resources we will have to learn how to better develop human resources for non-technological solutions of problems. We will thus need to learn how to distinguish between problems which require technological fixes, and those for which technological fixes represent resource-consumptive alternatives which may be avoided. A technological society will have difficulty in making the distinction between unavoidable technological fixes and optional ones. The technocratic leadership of a technological society may value techniques so highly as to tend towards the glorification of technological fixes in order to serve technocracy as an idolatry which demands the sacrifice of scarce physical resources in it's service. The burnt offerings of oil, natural gas, and coal will then send heavenward the testimony of the faithfulness of the technocrats, as they attend their machines as the high priests of technological fixes. The more they love their machines, the less able they will be to perceive the possibility of solving human problems in non-technological ways---and so the more prone they will be to worship their technical perspectives, languages, understandings, manipulative skills, and machines. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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