Thirdly, there is an increasingly disparity in the pricing of high-technology consumer items . The cost of legal software, too, is monstrously high. The result of this abnormality in the pricing structure is that things which are accessible to large populations in the West are sold in economically less developed countries as items for a very small section, which uses them as symbols of power and boosting its image. In the naive belief of emulating the technological republics of the advanced economies, technology is being sought to be imported lock, stock and barrel. The blind import of technology from the West has serious implications for the growth of indigenous technology and technologists.
Technology can have a unique aura of being value-free.
It appeals both to the socialist radical who sees in it the growth of productive forces to the conservative for whom ,unlike poverty and human impoverishment, technology does not prick the conscience. It is, of course, a different issue where Science is concerned. The shift in the emphasis from Nehru s insistence on scientific temper to the current fascination with technology alone has to be seen in this light. While technology is the material expression of modernity, science is a method for analysis, rationality and Reason. In the fresh dawn of the nations tryst with destiny, thus, science and technology went hand in hand.