TECHNOLOGY In addressing the immensely
complex topic of the relationship between technology and the good life, one could obviously focus on the question "What is the good life?" However, our focus will be on the technology portion of the relationship. Too often in technological decision making and in questions of how technology affects quality of life, the technological
aspects of the situation are not fully
understood. More particularly, there is little attention paid to the complex interactive relationship among technology, person, society, culture, and environment. Often technology - which is more than likely a complex of technologies - is heavily laden with social, cultural, and value aspects that need to be understood and dealt with to allow more informed and adequate decisions about technology and its use. Technology has a subtle power to bring about profound experiential, social, political, and even philosophical
changes. One must be aware of these changes in order not to be driven and molded in certain directions by the technology itself.
(Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, International Journal of the Unity of the Sciences - Vol. 1, N? 2, Summer 1988)
By Fausto Fabio de Araujo