Technology—How It Affects Us
IN Goethe's fairy tale The Sorcerer's Apprentice, made popular by Paul Dukas' music and Walt Disney's movie Fantasia, the apprentice hit upon the idea of putting to use his master's strange power to lighten his own work. He set a broomstick to work to carry water for him. Not knowing how to control it, he soon found that the obedient but senseless slave carried so much water into the house that a flood resulted. The story, of course, had a happy ending—the master came to the rescue.
Like the apprentice's broomstick, technology is basically a powerful tool. It can be put to use to make our work easier, more efficient, and perhaps even more enjoyable. But when it is not properly controlled or when it is misused, it, too, can become a force with disastrous, even fatal, consequences.
A prime example of this is the automobile. There is no question that the automobile has brought many advantages and benefits to society in general. Yet, who can deny the......

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