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- 1Jacques Ellul quote on technology's double edge recirculates●@ebbot 2/2 Thus the good effects (hygiene, better techniques, discoveries, decolonization) are inseparably tied to bad e
A passage from Jacques Ellul's 1988 book The Technological Bluff is being shared: he argued that technology's benefits, such as hygiene, better techniques, discoveries and decolonization, are inseparably tied to harms including the loss of subsistence economies and dangerous overpopulation. The excerpt is being discussed in technology and dystopia-themed conversations, reviving Ellul's critique for present-day debates about technological progress.