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Jacques Ellul's technological nightmare

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Are we to be ruled by an automated Stasi that never sleeps, never feels remorse, and never considers the cost?

Jacque Ellul’s The Technological Society , originally published in 1954, has become a footnote to one of the stranger events in U.S. history. A terrorist known as the Unabomber spent almost 20 years mailing bombs to corporate leaders and scientists. After the longest and most expensive FBI investigation in history, investigators discovered that the Unabomber was a Harvard-educated mathematician named Ted Kaczynski, who lived alone in a cabin with almost no possessions except Ellul’s book. Kaczynski called The Technological Society his Bible, but readers drawn by the allure of danger may be dis

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