quotations on "immoral" or "unnatural" technologies?

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 12:43:46 MDT

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    As research for my book I'm looking for historical examples of
    prominent people calling a newly developed technology immoral,
    unethical, unnatural, and so on.

    For example, I have Jeremy Rifkin suggesting that in-vitro
    fertilization would produce psychological problems in the resulting
    children

    Quote: "What are the psychological implications of growing up
    sheltered not by a warm womb but by steel and glass, belonging to no
    one but the lab technician who joined together sperm and egg?"

    I'd specifically love to find past objections to contraception, blood
    transfusions, organ transplantation, modern telecommunications, and
    other technologies that people now overwhelmingly view as positive.

    Any thoughts?

    thanks,
    mez

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