The Lost Massey Lectures

Let me suggest two kinds of remedies to restore morale to scientific technology.
The first is to judge technology directly in terms of the moral criteria appropriate to it as a branch of practical philosophy...Consider a possible list of criteria: Utility, Efficiency, Comprehensibility, Repairability, Flexibility, Amenity, Relevance, Modesty.  By utility I  mean, for instance, not pushing brand-name variety that makes no practical difference, whether in cars or drugs; not building obsolescence into expensive machines as they were children's toys.  By efficiency, I mean especially not over-riding the competence of technicians for the demands of the system; not disregarding thrift merely for convenience of administration... By amenity I mean concern for the whole range of feelings, not trivia like getting rid of billboards but the frayed nerves of traffic congestion, the destruction of cities by freeways, the chewing up of landscape for quick profits and transient convenience; not breeding out the taste and maturity of food for the convenience of processors and packagers.
...We can legislate, and exact penalties for, hazard, dishonest claims, and malpractice, but not for slovenliness, childish gluttony, callousness about the community, and indecency.  Then the public becomes resigned.

- Paul Goodman, The Moral Ambiguity of America