Eubulides wrote:
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Indeed.
Casting the question as being for or against technological progress is as idiotic as those questionnaires that ask if you are conservative, liberal or moderate.
The assumption really is that technology is a world of its own and it just goes happily on "progressing." And of course any effort to subordinate the direction or content of technological change is pure tyranny over the absolute right of any engineer or M.D. to create any damn thing she wants to create.
Technology has made possible an existence qualitatively different from and superior to anything humanity has expereicned in the past. That is, provided global warming, for example, has not already passed the point of No Return.
No substantive meaning can be given to the phrase, "Technological Progress." Is technology a universe of its own with its own principles of existence over which humans need exert no control?
Incidentally, there has been research which suggests that _any_ change, even the most delightful changes which no one would oppose, nevertheless damage, temporarily, the immune system. You are given tenure and a maximum raise and the next week you come down with a bad cold. Some people are just so incapable of enjoying life that they can't imagine it without new thrils and a new costume at least every two weeks.
Carrol