Re: quotations on "immoral" or "unnatural" technologies?

From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 15:52:10 MDT

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     mez@apexnano.com (Ramez Naam) writes:
    >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.

     A web search for "smallpox edmund massey" will produce reports of
    18th century religious arguments against smallpox vaccinations which
    were apparently shared by many theologians. 

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