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%RESOURCE EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY 781014
To decide how efficient a proposed technology is one
must first identify the limited resources in terms of
which efficiency will be measured. Both short term and
long term resource limitations must be considered. Long
term shortages may be translated into short-term
"shortages" by policy decisions which ration the long term
supply for use during specified time intervals. There are
numerous limited resources which need to be conserved.
Efficiency may therefore be measured by something like the
sum of the squares of the ratios of the (annual resource
demand of a proposed technology) to (the annual resource
budget). The most resource efficient technology would
then be the one which minimized that sum of squares---thus
focusing attention on resource demands which most deplete
specific scarce resources.
How human problems and respondent technologies
develop depends greatly upon the modalities of how humans
approach situations. The modality of approach to a great
extent determines the focal perceptions, realities,
relationships, insights, understandings, values,
priorities, goals, expectations, and technologies.
Objective modalities often generate technologies which are
consumptive of objective resources. Subjective modalities
often generate technologies which draw upon subjective
resources. Some resources are consumed when put to
service, other resources develop and grow when put to
service. The evaluation of the efficiency of a technology
thus must take into account the effect of the use of the
technology upon the resource---be it consumption,
pollution, disordering, degradation, refinement,
development, augmentation, growth, etc.
We need to broaden our awareness of the kinds of
technologies which may be appropriate in various
situations---recognizing when subjective technologies may
be more appropriate than objective technologies, for
example. We also need to recognize when a situation does
not call for the use of any technology---calling instead
for modalities of response characterized by awe, wonder,
appreciation, reverence, thanksgiving, surrender, worship,
etc. There are situations in which technological
responses of all kinds are inappropriate---and none of
them will be efficient in any meaningful way.
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