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Technology

When faced with some new and possibly confusing technological change, most people react in one of two ways. They ei 1 refuse to accept anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than human. Or they learn to ada 2 to the new invention, and eventually wonder how they could possibly have existed without it.T 3 computers as an example. For many of us, they still represent a thr 4 to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all dec 5 will be taken by machines. This may be because they seem mysterious, and difficult to und 6 Ask most people what you use a home computer for, and you can usually get vague answers about how " they give you information". In fact, even those of us who are familiar with computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of how they w 7 . But it does not take long to learn how to operate a business programme, even if things occasionally go wr 8 for no apparent reason. Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became widespread. What seems to alarm most people is the speed of tec 9 change, rather than change itself. And the objections that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, si 10 change is not always an improvement. As we discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don"t have to be plugged into work.