Jeffrey Reel: Embracing change — IT’s inevitable

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jeffrey Reel, of Lyndon Center, who is the general manager of Natural Provisions in St. Johnsbury, and the former sustainability manager of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
When throughout human history have humans not fully embraced, and run with, new safe technologies? The harnessing of fire? Stone, then metal, tools? The wheel? The cart? The horse and buggy, the train, airplane, radio, television, computer, smartphones …? In short: