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1/3 The stake of a technical culture is a major one and it is wagered (e.g., in education) that this culture is possible. Bets are placed on the computer. Thanks to it we can supposedly solve all our problems. It is also wagered that there can be a new and adequately balanced world economy on the triple basis of research, development (or growth), and modernization. It is thought that in coming years the contradiction thus far perceived between growth and development can be
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@ebbot 2/3 overcome. Qualitative growth can be achieved%3B Poperen has proposed a %22pact for new growth.??? It is wagered that technique will overcome the innumerable impasses of the Third World. Thanks to new techniques the Third World will finally %22take off%22 (i.e., take the good path of growth, which is that followed by our society!). it is wagered, too, that technology will make it possible to forecast successive stages of evolution, as well as the perverse effects of
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@ebbot 3/3 techniques and the objectives of assured growth. Finally, we are told that to the degree that people are not at a technical level we must invent or create a new people who can use techniques correctly so as to achieve the best result that will not slow progress or have adverse effects. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia