I would think that the question should be appropriateness, not bigness. I want a national post office.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:53:32PM -0400, ravi wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
> > I do not consider myself a technophobe. In Chico, I don't need a car
> > except to leave town. A bicycle is excellent transportation, but I
> > ride while listening to Democracy Now or some such program using a
> > modern MP3 player. The question is not so much whether technology is
> > good or bad, but rather whether it is appropriate.
> >
>
> while i tend to fall (mostly) on your side of the above opinion, i do
> not think that the question (of whether technology is good or bad, on a
> scale, not in a binary sense -- as in the 'golem') is to be ruled out or
> is unimportant. do we really need to reach as far back as heidegger to
> address that concern seriously?
>
> --ravi
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