What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent. The choice of technology, whether for a rich or a poor country, is probably the most important decision to be made. It is whether technologists will be ready for the demanding, often frustrating task of working with critical laypeople to develop what is needed or whether they will try to remain isolated, a luxury I doubt society will allow any longer. Our way of life has been influenced by the way technology has developed. In future, it seems to me, we ought to try to reverse this and so develop our technology that it meets the needs of the sort of life we wish to lead.
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction. Photo of Oppenheimer, from PhotoNet , CalTech's archive. At the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. If it wasn't for the last minute panic, nothing would ever get done. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.