The End of Progress
The End of Progress
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进步的终结
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1972
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Rolland L. Dewing
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索尔克研究所人类事务生物学理事会主任雅各布·布罗诺夫斯基对“进化中的技术和文化”（美国学者，春季）的一些看法：“事实，可怕的事实是，那些为反主流文化说话的人断言，技术扭曲了人性，这不仅是错误的，就生物学和历史而言。这是一种蓄意的恶作剧行为，因为它是反知识分子、非理性和狭隘偏见的现代服装的重演，这些偏见一直是美国的地方病。在过去，这种朴素的蒙昧主义一直是老年人的防御性信仰;现在它被卖给年轻人，作为一种受人尊敬的万金油，可以减轻无知的瘙痒。. . .“我们所做的，也应该为自己所做的感到自豪的是，使技术的好处（在健康、便利、隐私和信息的高标准意义上）成为一项人权，就像生命和自由一样。. . .当然，做这些事情的设备的扩散，水管和下水道，公寓，道路和电话线，锡罐和礼品包装，有一段时间已经把风景弄得一团糟。但这种扭曲不是技术的代价，而是任何地方、任何时候革命的代价，就像协和广场上突然出现的断头台一样。. . .“PAMPHILUS
From Jacob Bronowski, Director of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs at the Salk Institute, some thoughts on "Technology and Culture in Evolution" (American Scholar, Spring): "The fact, the dreadful fact, is that the assertion by those who speak for a counterculture that technology distorts human nature is not only false, as biology and as history. It is a deliberate act of mischief, for it is a recapitulation in modern dress of the anti-intellectual, irrational and illiberal prejudices that have always been endemic in America. In the past this homespun obscurantism has been a defensive faith for the old; now it is being sold to the young as a respectable brand of snake oil that will dull the itch of ignorance. . . . "What we have done, and should be proud to own, is to make the benefits of technology (in the sense of a high standard of health, convenience, privacy and information) a$ much a human right as life and liberty. . . . Of course, the proliferation of the apparatus to do these things, the water mains and the sewers, the apartment houses, the roads and the telephone wires, the tin cans and the gift wrappings, for a time has turned the landscape cockeyed. But that distortion is not the price of technology—it is the price of revolution anywhere, at any time, like the guillotine springing up in the Place de la Concorde. . . ." PAMPHILUS