Social Impacts of Technology LO15611

Richard Karash (rkarash@karash.com)
Sun, 2 Nov 1997 19:15:45 -0500 (EST)

Replying to LO15601 --

Tim Gallwey taught me to ask two questions about any "thing", call it X.

1. What are the uses of X? For example, identify the uses of "work" by
completing this sentence: Work is for...(what?)...

2. What are the non-uses of X? For example, complete: Work is *not* for
...(what?)...

I had some real revelations by using these two questions to consider the
uses and non-uses of work.

-- Rick

On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Walter Derzko wrote:

> What methods or questions are you using/asking yourself to anticipate the
> social impacts of a new invention, technology or any human artifact ? Is
> there a basic core list?
>
> I use five questions:
...snip...

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