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World Service,31 Jul 1989,27 mins

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From Thomas Edison's lightblub onwards, a look at how economic imperatives have driven our adoption of particular technologies without concern for the knock on effects on the environment and social structures. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1989.

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