The Uncertain Promise: Value Conflicts in Technology Transfer

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By Denis Goulet

IDOC/North America, 1978, 320 pp

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Seeing technology as both a "bearer and destroyer of values," the author, "a philosopher of development," is more concerned with people's ability to control it and to know what they really want than with the questions more commonly asked in this field. Some provocative perceptions result.

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