1/2 We have to translate technical invention into social practices and new modes of thinking which seek to make every relation transparent. This transparency is correlative to an information society and it brings all information and all knowledge within the reach of all (so long as they have, in effect, a suitable culture). But this culture is not idealistic. It is in the process of making out of simple spectators (like ourselves) those who are competent to use complex
@ebbot 2/2 machines, and then the %22computer freaks,%22 who are able, for example, actually to invent new possibilities and problems for microcomputers. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia