The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in teh vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society.
- Barry Commoner (1917-). The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology, 1972
America’s technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.
- Alice Embree. “Media Images 1: Madison Avenue Brainwashing-The Facts.” In Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
- Michael Harrington (1928-1989). Appendix (1) to The Other America: Poverty in the United States, 1962
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
- Max Lerner (1902-1992). “The Imagination of H.G. Wells,” Actions and Passions: Notes on the Multiple Revolution of Our Time, 1949
The technocratic imperative: “What can be done must be done.”
- Theodore Roszak (1933-). Appendix to The Making of the Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, 1969
