32 () posted 317 days ago by NumbaZero 317 days ago by NumbaZero +35 / -3 7 comments share 7 comments share save hide report block hide replies
"The Technological Society", Jacques Ellul, English Edition 1964
https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety
the book Ted Kaczynski called "my bible"
Sounds like folks long for a truly free market unencumbered by costly regulations.
Gambling on technology futures drives our economy.
I'm only partially kidding.
Unironically all of those.
a) Technology; tekhno; tekhnē - "art; artifice".
b) Others suggest artifice to tempt one to ignore being (life) driven (inception towards death) within natural.
c) Being implies transmission aka trans (across) mittere (to release, let go; send; driven) within motor (motion).