Technology Without Ethics

I agree Technology is per se neutral: but a race devoted to the increase of its own power by technology with complete indifference to ethics does seem to me a cancer in the universe. Certainly if he goes on his present course much further man can not be trusted with knowledge.

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“Letter to Arthur C. Clarke, 7 Dec. 1943,” The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Vol. II (2004), 594.