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Technologies do not always increase people's options,
sometimes they decrease people's options.
One may not want a car with that sort of equipment,
but one has no choice.
The next point is that technology does not
always solve important problems.
We like to think that technological innovation will al
most always lead to an en riched and
enhanced life, but very often technological
progress does not address itself to important
problems, but rather trivial ones.
An d yet we proceed anyway,
in spite of the fact that in solving the trivial problems
We may be creating greater problems than
the problem we solve for example
We now have in
America the issue of whether or not we
should spend billions of dollars
for something called a super
information highway
Well, if we ask our authorities on this,
the same question I put to the car salesman, we get some curious answers
What is the problem to which this super
-information highway will be a solution?
One answer one gets is that, well,
we now have available only 60 television channels.
With the super -information highway,
we will have access to 500, maybe even 1 ,000.
Is this a problem that
really needs a solution?
We have to begin to ask this question and
several others about technological change.
Because technological change is almost always
what I call a thousand -year bar gain.
It's given and it's taken away.
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