>Carll Remick wrote:
>
>>[Ah, James, you're not the only one keen to put the Third World on the
>>cutting edge of technology.]
>>
>>Published in the July 1, 2002 issue of The Nation
>>
>>Globalizing Clinical Research
>>Big Pharma Tries Out First World Drugs on Unsuspecting Third World
>>Patients
>>
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>But I just saw James write (the part you neglected to quote): "The question
>of which technologies are you for or against is absurd. Technology is not
>political, its application is. The question of whether to use a pulley or a
>lever has no political consequences. The social relations between the users
>and the owners of the levers and pulleys do."
>
>Seems to me your example perfectly illustrates his point.
But Carl, unusually for an Emersonian, just wants to look at the downside of things.
Doug