Technological Compulsions:

There is no compelling rationale to justify the race to match
contemporary use with technical advancement stride for stride. 
This compulsion more accurately reflects a syndrome of
"technology for technology's sake".  While many emerging
technologies present wonderful potential for innovative
applications, they are invariably complex, poorly understood, and
wrought with bugs and unforeseen complications that disrupt a
premature attempt at application.  Often the need for the
technology is inadequately defined, and the development of
effective applications usually entails a costly and frustrating
process.  If an emerging technological tool does in fact
represent substantial potential to enhance some aspect of the
work regime, then it must be developed through a rational
research process that will yield carefully crafted and reliable
commercial products.  Contemporary society must devise coherent
strategies for assimilating technological achievements through a
thoughtful, productive pacing of technological application.  As
Stewart Brand expressed so concisely in the "Media Lab: Inventing
the Future at M.I.T":

"It's a way of probing into the future instead of lurching
there." (Brand, 1988) 

<ffile15>   Moderation
<ffile23>   Technology for Technology's Sake
<ffile27>   Blind Faith
<efile13>   Mystique and Misunderstanding