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Technology functions
Historically, technologies have been used to meet basic needs (food, clothing,
housing, personal security, social relations, understanding of natural and
social world) delights for body and beauty (sports, music, hedonism in all its
forms) and as means to satisfy desires (symbolizing status, weapons and all
kinds of artificial means used to persuade and dominate people.)
Despite what the Luddites claimed, as Marx himself said, referring specifically
to the industrial machinery [1] technologies are neither good nor bad. Ethical
judgments are not applicable to the technologies, but the use we make of
them: a gun can be used to kill someone and seize their property or to save
life by killing a person who is attacking another.
Methods of technologies