ABSTRACT
The bulk of the impetus for Appropriate Technology in the North appears to have come from responses to the perceived growth of the technological society. The majority of the innovations which make up the international effusion of modern technology-practice originate from the North and were developed to suit the dominant interests of the North. Not surprisingly, such technology has brought undeniable benefits to people in the North, to a degree that has been far from matched in the South. The development of nuclear fission technology represents one of the greatest feats of task-oriented cooperation in modern science and technology; it involved the successful translation of front-line science into technology. While technology is a human creation and is in principle subject to human control, a growing number of writers began to point out that certain dynamics and imperatives of technological development transcended the control of individual people and groups, thereby confound ing human control of technological change.
