> I can imagine a culture in which such a discovery would be made without anyone planning to use it for a bomb. This would be a high culture. But making a bomb was an idea all too natural in #WesternCulture in which technological superiority was so integral to subduing other world cultures... I'm not saying #technology is all bad, or even neutral. It needs to be seen as ambivalent in the human context...
https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0825/082510.html
#vonWeizsacker on #Tech #Technics #TechChoice #TechAndEthics

> I believe a technology that destroys nature is immature technology, not really technical in the true sense. Likewise, one who says "Do everything that can be done technologically" is a bad technician. We need to achieve a maturity that effectively prevents damage to nature. And we individually must watch that we don't blindly accept everything that is done technologically...
https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0825/082510.html
#vonWeizsacker #Tech #TechChoice #EthicsAndTech

Since finding the _Towards Liberal Education_ (1948-1962) collection I've been trying to read some of the writers of the most memorable essays. #LewisMumford is mentioned by Neil Postman and Nicolas Carr so I binged his work, some of the smaller books. I haven't really read the big #MythOfTheMachine books but reading that captions of the photos has been rewarding. It feels like he's talking about AI and Satellites: recent #TechExhibitionism. Compare #CharlesBlondin with #vonWeizsacker

Since finding the _Towards Liberal Education_ (1948-1962) collection I've been trying to read some of the writers of the most memorable essays. Lewis Mumford is mentioned by Neil Postman and Nicolas Carr so I binged his work, some of the smaller books. I haven't really read the big #MythoffTheMachine books but reading that captions of the photos has been rewarding. It feels like he's talking about AI and Satellites: recent #TechExhibitionism. Compare #CharlesBlondin with #vonWeizsacker