>If the technology is based on rapid exploitation of vital resources, or human lives, then in the long run it is far more likely to harm than help us. Our adoption of the long-range vision necessary to critique technological advance, is what I mostly mean by making technology "susceptible to moral restraint and control."

Is long-range vision vs. short-term gains a moral issue subject to moral restraint and control? It may be unwise to steal resurces from the future, but is it immoral? Is it any less immoral to delay beneficial technologies at the expense of the present?

I agree that we should look toward long-range effects of our technology, but until that technology is in place, it is essentially impossible to predict the effects.

-- Patrick Riley