American commitment to town meeting democracy once promoted but now lessens the common good that transcends small towns. Regulatory bureaucracy is a more effective technology than local political participation. The best technology is the information system that can motivate large populations at that point at which they control the button on the channel selector. Sesame Street has long since become more important than Mom or Apple Pie. Benson said we needed to talk about technology.
All technologies are subject to distortion by sin.
The failure of technology is not a failure of machines but a failure to use the gifts of God for the people of God.