Re: Sustainability, technology

Grant Ballard-Tremeer (mailto:B.Tremeer@MAIL.UVA.NL)
Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:48:59 +0100

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Date:         Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:48:59 +0100
From: Grant Ballard-Tremeer <mailto:B.Tremeer@MAIL.UVA.NL>
Subject:      Re: Sustainability, technology
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>

Perhaps there is a blur at some point. Technology can be designed according
to a value system and therefore express it. In the extreme, an atomic
warhead says a lot about the values of the producer. Approprite
technologies, could certainly carry values of the disseminators - even with
the disseminators absent, the latent values could influence life.

(snip) >> A discussion of values is a little different from a discussion of
>> causes.
>
>I think there's a big difference. Unfortunately many will not admit the
>difference..
(snip)

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