The technological society : [a penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and of the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man

'The Technological Society is one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself--unless we take the necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that ‘technique’ is creating to meet its own needs.' --Robert Theobald, The Nation Full tags: non-accountability, alpha brain waves, analytics, automation, bean counters, Behavioural Insights Team, binary, bureaucracy, Communism, computer modelling, conscience, cybernetics, cyborg, dehumanisation, self-deification, digitalisation, DNA therapy, libido dominandi, eugenics, genetic engineering, group conformity, gulag, hive mind, human resources, ID Card, internet, mass indoctrination, Jewish Kahal, Kulaks, lab rats, materialism, metrics, cult of measurement, Stanley Milgram, evolutionary petrie dish, racial miscegenation, Mouse Utopia, multiculturalism, Nudge Unit, one database to rule them all, overregulation, planned economy, production line, propaganda, procrustean bed, public relations, robots, serfdom, Set/Typhon/Jehova, skylab, Social Credit, ISO standardisation, statistics, subliminal advertising, technocratic elite, Trivium, tyranny, slavery, UNO, usury, World Government, zombie. Originally published in French as "La Technique ou l'enjeu du siècle" by Librairie Armand Colin. Copyright, 1954, by Max Leclerc et Cie, Proprietors of Librairie Armand Colin. Same item as http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=19747DD4D64CC3E86C28EEFD4792C353 but bookmarks expanded/regularised. As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology-which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind-threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process."-Harper's "One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself-unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs."-The Nation "A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance."-Los Angeles Free Press The Technological Society - Front Cover Title Page Printer's Imprint Statement from the Publisher Foreword Translator's Introduction CONTENTS Note to the Reader Author's Foreword to the Revised American Edition Author's Preface to the French Edition Half title 1. Techniques 2. The Characterology of Technique 3. Technique and Economy 4. Technique and the State 5.Human Techniques 6. A Look at the Future Bibliography Index About the Author Rear Cover Monograph on historical and contemporary social implications of technology in civilization - discusses economic implications of technology and its relationship to the institutional framework, political doctrines, education, leisure activities and quality of life, etc., as well as its philosophical and sociological aspects, and makes future predictions. Bibliography pp. 437 to 449 ...he Goes Through One Human Activity After Another And Shows How It Has Been Technicized, Rendered Efficient, And Diminished In The Process.- Harper's Magazine

...he Goes Through One Human Activeity After Another And Shows How It Has Been Technicized, Rendered Efficient, And Diminished In The Process. --harper's Magazine

"A penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and of the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man."--Cover No social, human, or spiritual fact is so important as the fact of technique in the modern world.