A response from Marx

At first glance this claim seems to be accurate, but with further analysis, as Marx points out, can be disproved.  He says that in order to understand this point, people just need to look at recent history of the West:  "two barbaric world wars, the Nazi holocaust, the Stalinist terror, and the nuclear arms race.  It is striking to note how many of the fearful events of our time involve the destructive use or misuse, the unforeseen consequences, or the disastrous malfunction of modern technologies:  Hiroshima and the nuclear threat; the damage inflicted upon the environment by advanced industrial societies; and spectacular accidents like Three Mile Island."  Due to these many reasons, more and more people are beginning to realize that progress and technological innovation don't always go hand and hand, but are sometimes opposites.

This leads me to my current paper topic (which I am still not sure about so if anybody has some good idea their not going to use let me know, or if someone wants to point me in the right direction it would be appreciated):  the negatives effects of technology on education (I know it needs narrowing, I'm just trying to find that narrow topic).  This topic fits right in with the argument being made by Marx, making it easy to predict what he would say.  I believe he would say that many Americans would just gradually assume that technological advancement in the realm of education will lead to progress and innovation, but that's not true.  The current technological innovations in the classroom etc. are actually having many negative effects on a student's education, perhaps even more negative effects than positive effects.

Once I narrow in on a specific technological innovation in technology, I can elaborate on what kind of response I could expect from Marx, but for now this is all I can say.