Great essay, Steve Downs! Your description of how we have “engineered” an unhealthy society is especially powerful. My bias, as a student and frequent critic of technology (technology defined broadly, as you do here) is to question whether designing more technology to fix the problems created by technology is the way to go. Thus I eagerly await your next installments to see what you have in mind in that regard. In any event, I totally agree with your basic premise, that we need to rethink the technological society we’ve constructed in some fundamental ways.