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thesis: spring 1998: justin hall
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> technology and citizen choice:
  priorities and responsibility for tool selection
how do people evaluate and implement technologies? who is responsible?

a broad base of people use technologies related to eating and health. studying which tools people use for living, and how they use them, can give us a sense of technology priorities at large.

technology selection in some significant part determines the shape of our lives, and the resulting shape of the our society.

the machines we build and buy somehow describe the way we want to live.

technology
definition
penetration
expertise
what is technology? how do we talk about it?


affects food relationships and death
- composition
fortification
msg
olestra
- pills
diet pills
vitamins
- distribution 
electronic babysitting fluoridation
vaccines
food relationships and death - things certifiably timeless in the human existence (to date).


determining some potential directions for our society.
return
stasis
computopia
technological determinism
heart
direction - barring unforseen disaster or a severe priority swing, we're headed towards this, or in this fashion.

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