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 | | There are important technical, moral, and political issues about conversion of this minority into a majority, including whether that would be a good thing, whether it is required by fairness, how much priority should be given to information technology in developing countries especially relative to processes of industrialization, and so forth. |
 | | It is clear however that desire for connection to the Net is not a minority taste, something only for a military or academic elite, but rather it corresponds closely to the enormous demand for the ubiquitous computer itself at every social level. |
 | | The general Heideggerian idea of a value inherent in technology is instanced in the statement that the high technology of factory farming, or ``agribusiness,'' is inseparable from a bad way of relating to nature, understanding it and treating it simply as something to be processed in wholesale fashion for satisfaction of human appetites. |
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