On Technology

All invention will prove to be of some use. All invention is bound to address some need or the other. It is the inventor's task; the government, the financier, the manufacturer, the vendor, the costumer, each one for and as themselves - it is our responsibility to be aware, to ask whether every need has to be met. To consider carefully the effects technology may have on human potential, natural potential, on the interrelatedness of the world.

One may say we understand things only in retrospect. I say we can understand things as and when we desire, envisage, research, invent, propagate, profiteer, consume, dispose.

One must observe one's own life immersed in technology, examine it without fear, guilt, escape or self-pity.

All destructive, foul, alienating, profit-based, power-giving, speed-giving, excessively comfort-giving, security-giving invention is either a result of ego, self-centred activity or an effort to resolve problems created by self-centredness.
Such attempts shall be inadequate unless ego itself is observed by an individual.
Such technology will enfeeble us, benumb us further and further.

Right technology will happen when we watch what we do, when we are sensitive to the whole, when we let go, in its totality, the linear, upward notion of 'progress'. When, inwardly, comparison has come to an end.