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Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'

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The Moral Crisis of Technology

i think what we need to acknowledge about technological thinking, or technocratic thinking, is that it's always instrumental. And so the one question that technology can never solve is the ends to which it should be put. i don't a people think we're getting distant from the text case. This is really directly related. Iis precisely to fall into the logic that wells is here cautioning us,. even, perhaps, against his own political sensibilities, against yes, but there is the temptation to think that all problems can be di away by technical means. Ultimately, it's all a question ofof our attitude to them and we can change our attitudes.

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