...pollution, health problems, protective measures, nuisances of all kinds. Growth carries with it costs that change all calculations according to whether we include them. There has been agricultural destruction in order to promote industrial development (e.g., in the Tennessee Valley in the USA or the juran??on vineyard in France). --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

Four propositions concerning the use of technology: First, all technical progress has its price. Second, at each stage it raises more and greater problems than it solves. Third, its harmful effects are inseparable from its beneficial effects. Fourth, it has a great number of unforeseen effects. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

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We are set in an ambiguous universe in which each technical advance accentuates the complexity of the mixture of positive and negative elements. The more progress there is in this field, the more inextricable is the relation between the good and the bad, the more choice becomes impossible, and the less we can escape the ambivalent effects of the system. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system... In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we%27ve had to kill people. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia

My meaning is that technical development is neither good, bad, nor neutral. It is a complex mixture of positive and negative elements. Some are good and some are bad, if we want to use moral terms. It is impossible to dissociate them and thus to achieve a purely good technique. Also, good results do not depend at all on the use which we make of technical equipment. In effect, even in such use we ourselves are modified in turn. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia