gy is less constrained than it was under feudalism, it is allowed free reign only insofar as it does not upset the pattern of status and privilege prescribed by capitalism" (Harvey, 1994, p. 74).
Genuine knowledge sets the outer limits of human potential. Ceremonial institutions, however, "encapsulate genuine knowledge, and thus the human potential, by confining the use of knowledge within the framework of the core values of the established power structure" (Junker, 1982b, p. 50). In most capitalist economies, the "real choices that our technological knowledge make possible (choices between different production and distribution systems, for example, centralized versus decentralized) have been circumscribed by, or encapsulated within, our capitalistic ideology and, in particular, by the values of self-interest, profit seeking, and laissez-faire" (Munkirs, 1985, p. 179).
Technology is the means to achieving the "cross-cultural end of the extension and improvement of the life proces
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