Current emphasis on technology and neglect of the areas of human understanding and development may produce children who are unable to sustain human relationships and interaction and will turn to machines for gratification. Society faces the challenge of altering these trends by developing human resources in order to have technology serve human…

Social studies educators should refrain from using computer-assisted instruction as much as possible; instead, they should create a program that reveals the hard facts of a computerized society and its dangers to civil liberties and human dignity. Past examples of the standardizing effects of technology reach as far back as the printing press.…