The most fundamental difference between
‘developing’ and ‘developed’ societies is technology, in a broad yet
specific sense”; so states the author of this important study,
Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing
technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed,
institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of
‘development’ (human, economic, environmental, etc.) and ultimately
civilization itself. But ‘techno-spheres’ are not only technical. They
are also social, political, and ideological. For societies and countries
that have long been kept from realizing their own prosperity and
dignity, development is also liberation.