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The trouble with that kind of advance is that there is no end to it. Development becomes compulsive. It is never possible to call a halt. Once you take the first step you have committed yourself to take the last, some day, even if the last step goes straight off the edge of a precipice. It is fairly easy for man to assert his mastery over his earthly environment, but once he has asserted that mastery he has to go on exercising it no matter where the exercise takes him. The age of applied technology has one terrible aspecteach new technique has to be exploited to its absolute limit, until man becomes the victim of his own skills. The conquest of nature cannot end in a negotiated peace. Invent a simple device like the automobile, to get you from here to there more quickly than you could go without it; before long you are in bondage to it, so that you build your cities and shape your countryside and reorder your entire life in the light of what will be good for the machine instead of what…