The notion of acceptable technology was developed in the 20th century by thinkers such as E.F. Schumacher and Jacques Ellul to describe conditions where it was not desirable to make use of very new technologies or those that required entry to some centralized infrastructure or components or skills imported from elsewhere. Some of essentially the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what at the second are thought of to be dystopian literary classics such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Goethe’s Faust, Faust promoting his soul to the satan in return for energy over the bodily world is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of commercial technology.
Computers have been invented and later miniaturized utilizing transistors and built-in circuits. Information technology, significantly the optical fiber and optical amplifiers that led to the delivery of …