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Wisdom, technology, and the good life.
Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our am...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/396156 |
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author | Markey, H T |
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description | Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our ambivalence toward technology, a move away from our superspecialization of technologists and nontechnologists and toward a clearer understanding of technology as a most important servant of man. |
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spelling | pubmed-16379462006-11-17 Wisdom, technology, and the good life. Markey, H T Environ Health Perspect Research Article Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our ambivalence toward technology, a move away from our superspecialization of technologists and nontechnologists and toward a clearer understanding of technology as a most important servant of man. 1979-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1637946/ /pubmed/396156 Text en |
spellingShingle | Research Article Markey, H T Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title | Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title_full | Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title_fullStr | Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title_full_unstemmed | Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title_short | Wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
title_sort | wisdom, technology, and the good life. |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/396156 |
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