Most people agree, Postman and Burke among them, that there are costs associated with implementing technology. But child labor, unsafe working conditions, poverty and slavery are all costs w

Most people agree, Postman and Burke among them, that there are costs associated with implementing technology. But child labor, unsafe working conditions, poverty and slavery are all costs we have demonstrated a willingness to pay, or, rather, to make others pay. Energy, itself, is associated with costs and the implications of these choices last a long long time. Many inequities we see today in America are rooted in the 300-year-old economics of slavery in America, for example. What is the relationship among labor, energy and technology?