• What is the totality of its effects, its “ecology”?
• How does it affect our perception of our needs?
• How does it affect our way of seeing and experiencing the world?
• Does it foster a diversity of forms of knowledge?
• What does it make?
• What does it allow us to ignore?
• Is it the least imposing technology available for the task?
• Can it be responsive to organic circumstance?
• Does it concentrate or equalize power?
• Does it require a bureaucracy for its perpetuation?
• Does it cause ugliness?
• What noise does it make?
• What pace does it set?
• […]

(From 76 Reasonable Questions to ask about any technology by Jacques Ellul)