title: Wisdom, technology, and the good life.
abstract: Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our ambivalence toward technology, a move away from our superspecialization of technologists and nontechnologists and toward a clearer understanding of technology as a most important servant of man.
mesh_terms: D004467:Economics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008019:Life Style; D010684:Philosophy; D011788:Quality of Life; D013672:Technology / Q000266:history; D013997:Time Factors