Writer's Block: Pros and Cons

[browngirl]

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The problem with questions about 'technology' is that they tend to define 'technology' both imprecisely and far too narrowly. Speech, fire, cloth and writing are all technologies which revolutionized human life when they were developed -- would any of the inevitable self-professed haters of technology want to be rid of those?

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[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

The printing press -- and the rise in literacy and knowledge it enabled, refrigeration -- and the rise in nutrition and decline in food poisoning it enabled, antibiotics, running water and the concomitant improvement in sanitation and reduction in disease ... much as I love my computer, it has to go behind some of those technologies.