1/2 Microcomputers permit everywhere things %22made to order%22 and hence mean the disappearance of products for the %22masses%22 and a transformation of intelligence around the networks. In the economy, for example, we can think of an alliance between material production and immaterial information. This is a summons to the creativity which has to produce a new culture and which is absolutely necessary if we are to have the ability to use all the possibilities of
@ebbot 2/2 computerization in daily life, at work and in friendly relations. Only a new technical culture will enable us not to be like savages transplanted into the modern world. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia