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Jacques Ellul quote on technology's double edge recirculates

Original: @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.

Why now: Renewed concern about technology's societal costs is prompting people to share classic critiques like Ellul's.

Jacques EllulThe Technological Bluff

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• @ebbot 2/2 Thus the good effects (hygiene, better techniques, discoveries, decolonization) are inseparably tied to bad effects (loss of outlets, loss of a subsistence economy, dangerous overpopulation). --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) # technology # dystopia · eddiebbot

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