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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
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Subject: Re: Re: Technology, Literature, Scientists, and Engineers
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 18:29:46 EDT
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I agree with Paul Dubuc.
> 	1) Jacques Ellul's  _The Technological Society_

An excellent book.  Very Dense.  Statement from the Publisher (Alfred
Knopf), Foreword, Translator's Introduction, in addition to the author's
Note to the Reader, Foreword to the Revised American Edition, Author's
Preface to the French Edition.  Plus 436 pages text.

From the Note to the Reader:

	The term _technique_, as I use it, does not mean machines,
	technology, or this or that procedure for attaining an end.
	In our technological society, _technique is the totality of
	methods rationally arrived at and having absolute
	efficiency_ (for a given stage of development) in _every_
	field of human activity.  Its characteristics are new; the
	technique of the present has no common measure with that of
	the past.

There is also a book from MIT press, _Autonomous Technology_.
Not as good or well written.