Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that
A)necessity is the mother of invention.
B)when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not.
C)human beings have no free will.
D)the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.

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Leslie White believed that inventions are a result of the cultural and technological readiness of a society, rather than purely human will or necessity. This means that if a society has the means and knowledge to create an invention, it will inevitably do so, regardless of individual desires or needs.

Anthropologist Leslie White Maintained That Inventions Control People