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E. F. Schumacher Quotes about Technology

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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher
Beautiful, Technology, Demand
E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E. F. Schumacher
Technology, Men, Self
E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher
Beautiful, Technology, Progress

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

E. F. Schumacher
Technology, Self, Renewable Resources
E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

E. F. Schumacher
Technology, Thinking, Saving
"Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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