Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961007184859.00682868@mail.uva.nl> 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..
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