That way began to show through restlessness of some companion the concept science and Technique By the end of the seventy, me anoticie simultaneously the slight knowledge of appropriate technology (soon finds out to me that also would be denominated suitable technology, and of the CTPD notion (technical cooperation between the developing countries). With decurso of the time, complementary readings, made me be aware of authors who already had noticed themselves of the subject, before our also later harbor experiences and. Thus Hans Freyer and Ivan Ilich. And when it thought a title for this outline, agreed me who Ortega and Gasset title one Meditations on the technique. Already almost at present, and hooked with our studies on the possibilities of the light technology of but that the air. (L.T.A.), more met like zeppelines I airships, was with the notion of disruptive technologies. With that baggage I arrive at the notion that coins Flowers Dwelling of broken technologies. Between the things that to me that notion provokes, this the one of denominated technological obsolescence, and seems to me that in many cases are bound to handlings of the markets of imperfect competition, cartelizados or monopolized.

Within ample field of technologies, which leaves the considerations open that can be done on the matter, is known that many technologies were not so obsolete and inefficient, but did not have back to powerful interests economic that they had other products substitutes. And in this there are political components. Something of that happened to the massive replacement of the technology of the steam with the one of the motors of internal combustion. And similar things. For example what the General Motors made to remove from circulation in the United States trolebuses and thus to impose their omnibus. The conduct was typified of monopolistic by justice, but when I arrive the firm sentence, trolebuses already did not circulate around the North American cities.