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The most fundamental difference between ?developing? and ?developed? societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense?; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed, institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of ?development? (human, economic, environmental, etc.) and ultimately civilization itself. But ?techno-spheres? are not only technical. They are also social, political, and ideological. For societies and countries that have long been kept from realizing their own prosperity and dignity, development is also liberation.