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%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.
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