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In article <D80Gtw.HyA@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>, ascott@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
(Alan Scott) wrote:

>I must respectfully disagree, oh disillusioned one.
>Perhaps these might jog your memory:
>TV
>microwaves
>automobiles
>electricity
>radio
>flight
>penicillin
>
>The way I see it, every aspect of life presently is conncected in some form
>with science and technology.  Without S&T, I would not be able to read and
>respond to your message in this forum.

OK, maybe not the majority, but there must be one or two billion people in
the Third World that have no access to any of the items you listed. And that's
a large share of the human population. As to the invention you and I are
using to conduct our argument, the computer, I don't believe that much
more than three or four percent of humans have ever used one.

The point I was trying to make was by no means against science and technology.
I intended to show how disproportionately its fruits are divided up, which must
be a cause for some concern. With respect to the second half of my
argument, the one on contribution, I don't believe any argument can be
made against it.
Right now, research and devlopment of technology involves very few people, and
surely if a greater number were to make contributions, the pace of
progress would increase accordingly.

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