"Technological Progress"

"But in general, apart from its own highly specialized standards of quantity and efficiency, 'technological progress' has produced a social and ecological decline.  Industrial war, except by the most fanatically narrow standards, is worse than war used to be.  Industrial agriculture, except by the standards of quantity and mechanical efficiency, diminishes everything it affects. Industrial workmanship is certainly worse than traditional workmanship, and is getting shoddier every day.  After forty-odd years, the evidence is everywhere that television, far from proving a great tool of education, is a tool of stupefaction and disintegration.  Industrial education has abandoned the old duty of passing on the cultural and intellectual inheritance in favor of baby-sitting and career preparation."

 Wendell Berry, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine"