Technology is progressive because it is rational. Yet technological fixes sometimes work, at least partially.
Goals are less clear for social problems, eg.
Human behavior is hard to change technological solutions to social problems tend to be incomplete and to replace one social problem with another. We have indeed gone in this direction. Present day members of Technocracy Inc. say this description is an exageration, but the rhetoric at the time came close. Lessons from the Luddites Technology, Productivity, and Psychological Needs , Questioning Technology , a site by Frank Beacham, a New York City-based writer, a native of Honea Path and the grandson of Dan Beacham, the man who ran Chiquola Mill during the shooting of 1934.