By E. F. Schumacher
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We did this with the Engineering Department of the University of Reading. It was going back to first principles, the sort of work that any think tank does, not to start from where others have got to. The prototype was built and we found a small manufacturer. That plant has 2 percent of the capacity of the hitherto smallest plant, and 2 percent of the capital cost; and it's totally compatible. And now, what was the reaction of the formidable dinosaur, the multinational company, of whom so many of my young colleagues are terrified?
In other words, the new technologies will be in the image of the system that brings them forth, and they will reinforce the system. " We hear of "white hot technological revolution," the Nuclear Age, the Age of Automation, the Space Age, fantastic feats of engineering, supersonic triumphs, all that; but many of the most basic needs of great masses of people, such as housing, cannot be taken care of. The most telling example, of course, is the most advanced society of the modern world, the United States.
Why has so much freedom been lost? Some people say, Nothing has been lost; but people are asking for more than before. Whichever way it is: there is a gap between supply and demand of this most precious thing--freedom. Has technology anything to do with this' The size and complexity of organizations certainly has a great deal to do with it. Why is the trend of the last hundred years toward bigger and bigger units? Nobody, except a few monomaniac tycoons, likes them. Why do we have to have them~ The invariable answer is: Because of technological progress.