@ebbot 3/3 ability to use the computer will replace reading and writing. The illiterates are those who do not adapt. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988)
#technology #dystopia@ebbot 2/3 elite, an intellectualism of the parlor, a dusty university collection of outdated knowledge, an %22ethereal virginity%22 of the intelligence which leads to the %22fantasy of human relations, a relational society,%22 and similar amiable notions. Everything that has thus far been produced in the form of culture must be scrapped. And if some people are obstinate, within ten years they will be just as illiterate as those who could not read or write in the 19th century. The
1/3 Transmission and processing take place everywhere with startling speed. A culture of networks is possible only on an international scale. Based on the universality of knowledge, which is accessible to all and in all places, and also on the speed of relations, this culture has to be international. Naturally, the visionaries of this network culture have only scorn for what has thus far been regarded as culture: an intellectual, nonpractical culture, the expression of an
@ebbot 2/2 thing is that it is universal and continuous; and in its sum total it is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
#propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine1/2 This practice of creating circumstances and of creating pictures in the minds of millions of persons is very common. Virtually no important undertaking is now carried on without it, whether the enterprise be building a cathedral, endowing a university, marketing a moving picture, floating a large bond issue, or electing a president. Sometimes the effect on the public is created by a professional propagandist, sometimes by an amateur deputed for the job. The important
@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 #dystopia1/2 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
Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
#propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine@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 #dystopia1/2 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
