Berry's nine standards for technology are worth considering: 1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces. 2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces. 3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. 4. It should use less energy than the one it replaces. 5. If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body. 6. It s…
Referring to his wife as a tool… I have to wonder if that marriage lasted
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I am also surprised by the meanness with
which two of these writers refer to my wife. In
order to imply that I am a tyrant, they suggest
by both direct statement and innuendo that she
is subservient, characterless, and stupid - a mere
"device" easily forced to provide meaningless
"free labor." I understand that it is impossible to
make an adequate public defense of one's private
life, and so I will only point out that there are
a number of kinder possibilities that my critics
have disdained to imagine: that my wife may
do this work because she wants to and likes to;
that she may find some use and some meaning
in it; that she may not work for nothing. These
gentlemen obviously think themselves femin-
ists of the most correct and principled sort,
and yet they do not hesitate to stereotype and
insult, on the basis of one fact, a woman they
do not know. They are audacious and irrespon-
sible gossips.
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Things change but they stay the same.