Jacques Ellul
Philosopher and sociologist (1912 to 1994) whose The Technological Society (1954) argued that technique, the drive for efficiency in everything, has become autonomous and reshapes human life to fit it.
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Their wordsTechnique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being.
↗The Technological Society, translated by John Wilkinson (Knopf, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsTechnique has become autonomous; it has fashioned an omnivorous world which obeys its own laws and which has renounced all tradition.
↗The Technological Society, translated by John Wilkinson (Knopf, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsTechnique integrates everything.
↗The Technological Society, translated by John Wilkinson (Knopf, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsMan is reduced to the level of a catalyst.
↗The Technological Society, translated by John Wilkinson (Knopf, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book