ABSTRACT
The social and psychological pathologies visited upon the First and Second Worlds through the perversion of science and technology are no less serious. Technologies which require huge capital investments and highly centralized systems of production and distribution and which rely on built-in obsolescence and wasteful consumption of non-renewable natural resources are yet another manifestation of the perversion of modern science and technology. The social and psychological pathologies visited upon the First and Second Worlds through the perversion of science and technology are no less serious. These pathologies have emerged not in spite of, but because of, modern science and technology. Technological optimists argue that the social pathologies generated by modern "high" technology can be overcome by more such technology. They would be players in the theatre of the absurd if they did not occupy positions of power and influence in the real world.
