Technology: dream or nightmare?

Issue 208 • September/October 2001

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Welcome

Welcome

Technology

QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONED

The question is, "Why are we developing this technology in the first place?

FORFEITING THE FUTURE

Powerful new technologies threaten life on Earth and raise moral issues.

WHO BENEFITS MOST?

TV and computers facilitate the centralization of global corporate power.

LET US NOT PLAY GOD

We need a global debate about the ethics of genetic engineering.

CARNIVAL

Carnival could be a model for culture.

FOR THE COMMON GOOD

We must have independent scientists free from corporate funding.

ASTRO-IMPERIALISM

If the US deploys weapons in space, war will follow.

COLONIZING CULTURES

Computers undermine and marginalize non-Western societies.

AMBIVALENT ATTITUDES

Technology is a double-edged sword.

STRIKING THE BALANCE

How do we achieve sustainable lifestyles?

REDESIGN

We must endow our children with a healthy future.

SLOW DOWN

"When the gods made time, they made plenty of it."

SELFISH MOBILITY

The mobile phone restricts greater mobility.

A DAY WITHOUT CARS

A Car-Free Day evolves into a lifestyle.

BETTER BUSINESS? &

Can technology help to clean up business practice?

WORDS FOR THE WILD

Streamlining nature for profit comes at a great cost.

The Arts

NATURE TOUCHED HER SOUL

The paintings of Marianne Werefkin are imbued with spiritual radiance.

Frontline

YOUNG AT HEART

Toddlers mix with old-timers.

MOTHERS UNITE

Information is the key to action.

LEADING THE WAY

Banning lead products.

NATURAL SOLUTIONS

Weeds are welcome.

Regulars

Touchstone

A Sense of Place

Voice From The South

Poetry

Cutting Edge

Perspectives

Business Diary

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

THE CORPORATE COUP

Review of It Didn't Happen Here

A MODERN MASTER

Review of Arthur Boyd: Art and Life

THE MARKET TRANSCENDENT

Review of One Market Under God

CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM

Review of Digital Futures

AN EPIC JOURNEY

Review of Sandro Botticelli: Picture Cycle for Dante's Divine Comedy

GARDENER'S DELIGHT

Review of Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers

BOOKS IN BRIEF

IN MY OWN WORDS

Review of Extract from The Breakdown of Nations

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