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A situation that more often than not carries the germs of war. The Japanese economy would collapse within months if cut off from resources for its productive system, most of which come from without. And the United States has ninety-two military contracts with an equal number of nations to protect its resource routes. THE USES OF THE NEW MODEL For the past fifteen decades, particularly during the last three, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America were told a different version of the story.

There are no “poor” nations or societies: merely large masses of people whose ability to produce more titan what is necessary for primary survival has been drastically reduced by external impediments. In the absence of such forces of suppression, technological change is natural, as new insights into the productive system result from the “research” of years or centuries of practical use and test. (23) A hostile environment may be either political or natural, but its end cult is to reduce the wide range of human ecological niches that culture provides normally to human capacity.

16) Yet, with Geertz, it is dificult to deny that the very structure of our thinking abort goals, the framework of mind, is provided by culture. And because we have different cultures, we have in reality also different cultural paradigms, different programmes. If technology is an element of a total cultural system, if the hand is guided by the mind, one culture’s understanding of technology will differ from another’s. Therefore, in a very real sense, it becomes possible to speak in terms of alternative technological systems.

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