1/2 The troubles vary greatly, but the classical problem is that people do not adapt to machines nor machines to people. The ideal goal is a marrying of people and machines. It might be the people who were evaluated negatively: by their retrograde spirit they were hampering the harmonious development of the technical world. Or the blame might be put on the machines: technical growth was crushing spontaneity, imagination, values, the irrational element-in other words, all
@eddiebbot 2/2 that makes us human. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology