> technology and citizen choice:   priorities and responsibility for tool selection
how do people evaluate and implement technologies? who is responsible? a broad base of people use technologies related to eating and health. studying which tools people use for living, and how they use them, can give us a sense of technology priorities at large. technology selection in some significant part determines the shape of our lives, and the resulting shape of the our society. the machines we build and buy somehow describe the way we want to live.
technology definition penetration expertise		what is technology? how do we talk about it?
affects food relationships and death - composition:  fortification msg olestra - pills:  diet pills vitamins - distribution  electronic babysitting fluoridation vaccines		food relationships and death - things certifiably timeless in the human existence (to date).
determining some potential directions for our society. return stasis computopia technological determinism heart		direction - barring unforseen disaster or a severe priority swing, we're headed towards this, or in this fashion.

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