> While I’m in the beginnings of a new tech-oriented research project, I’m getting a lot from Ursula Franklin’s “Real World of Technology” lectures, which contain the following checklist for projects: > > “… whether it: > > (1) promotes justice; > (2) restores reciprocity; > (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; > (4) favours people over machines; > (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; > (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and > (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?”