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Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??

Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Should the accelerating growth of technology then warn us??

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

and almost the only `` cure '' is early detection and removal.

One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.

So an objective look at our present procedures may move us to consider seriously this possibly analogous situation.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.