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Science, technology and wellbeing
Ian Lowe

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“SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING of the world has enabled us to improve material wellbeing on a scale that previous generations would find difficult to believe. For all but the last few decades, most humans have struggled to obtain the basic necessities for a civilised life …”