Abstract
Technology may be used for good or evil, but a belief the intrinsic goodness of technology is a trait that Western culture seems to have inherited from the Middle Ages. Although there is some evidence for medieval suspicions of technology, the surviving sources suggest that the positive view far outweighed the negative.' Lynn White, jr., noticed evidence for a link between technological superiority and virtuousness in the Utrecht Psalter, illuminated near Rheims between 816 and 834. . .. On the right [of fol. 35v-see fig. 1] is the Psalmist being blessed by God .... On the left are the evil-doers.... The central interest of the picture lies the sharpening of a sword each camp, but by very different means. The iniquitous are content to employ an old-fashioned whetstone. The virtuous, spectacular contrast, are using the first known example of the rotary grindstone.2 White argued that contemporaries seem never to have put
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