Quotation
“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”
Lewis Mumford
The idea behind the quotation
Society treats both creating new technology and accepting it without question as obligations, even when the technology may harm people.
Vocabulary in context
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