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A 3 page commentary on an article by Meg Greenfield in Newsweek that addresses the rapidity of technological change and its ultimate social impact. No additional sources cited.
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would have been agog at the technological marvels of the present. In so doing, Greenfield points out how the technological marvels of that era now seem "primitive," yet her grandparents
found such innovations as the airplane and the radio to be a tremendous adjustment. The heart of Greenfields message is not that technological development provides society with an ever-increasing evolution
of gee-whiz gadgets, which will improve the lot of humanity, but rather that each succeeding generation makes the same conceptual error, which is to "think that life will have been
transformed by these blessings in ways it has not been" (Greenfield 96). Greenfield admits that progress has been made, that there are "millions upon millions" of people who not
so long ago would have been afflicted by the plagues of the illness and ignorance that have so characterized much of human history. However, at its core, basic human nature
remains the same. The observations of Shakespeare on humanity and the "timeless human predicament" are just as apt today as they were in the Elizabethan era and will undoubtedly
remain so for the millennium to come (Greenfield 96). Today, as in the past, it will be the uses to which fallible people put the newfangled marvels of tomorrow to
use that will be the real issue, the pivotal point around which the ramifications of technology will revolve. Greenfield goes on to build upon this point in a logical
and articulate manner, and this contemplation causes her to consider the various debates about new technology that were raging at the time of her writing. She points out that society
fights about who should receive the benefit of a lifesaving device or technique, which can be a fight among equally needy individuals for a scarce resource. In referring to such
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