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the electronics industry ignored computers, established industries will die
slowly, to be replaced by new' industries which emerge to meet new
needs.
I've talked about two scenarios: the development of a high-level,
technology systems-oriented, large-scale shelter industry; and the growth
of a new individual-oriented, dispersecl "Whole Earth Catalogue" of
tools and materials.
In the last third of the twentieth century, we have come to believe
that technology can solve our problems. It holds the promise of con–
quering poverty, of making h ealth, happiness and peaceful and pro–
ductive lives possible for all the world's population. But we have learned
too that it poses enormous threats.
It
can divert our lesources and
feed itself at the expense of our needs, and it can wipe us out in one
enormous catastrophe. Technology today is at the center of our percep–
tion and experience. Concern for the individual- within a systematic
technological context - must replace technology in that center.
We have viewed two scenarios. The question is: which will it be?
in the current issue of
Editorial on the Anti-War M ovement
Andre
Gorz-Workers' Control
Robert Fitch and Mary Oppenheimer-Who
Rules the Corporations?
Jon Halliday-The
K orean R evolution
Nancy
Milton-Women in China
Past issues include James O'Connor on the. Fiscal Crisis of the State,
Serge Mallet on the Soviet Union, Ellen Willis on Consumerism and
Women, Herbert Gintis on the New Working Class.
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