Ellul, Jacques

Ellul, Jacques. 1964. The Technological Society. Wilkinson, John, trans. New York Knopf. 

Ehrlich, Paul, 42, 209n76 Eichmann, Adolf, 71 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 97, 181 Ellul, Jacques, 3, 41, 43, 45-46,... 

Jacques Ellul (59) maintains that technical progress is always ambiguous, it Is neither good nor bad, the contradictory elements are Indissolubly connected. Four of his main ideas are 1) all technical progress exacts a price 2) technique raises more problems than it solves 3) pernicious effects are inseparable from favorable effects and A) every technique implies unforseeable effects. Thus biotechnology is not likely to solve many agricultural problems and will undoubtedly create a host of new ones. 

Merton, Robert K. 1964. Foreword to The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul v-viii. 

There are many works that discuss the role of efficiency in technological activity in a broad sense - at a societal level - such as in Jacques EUul s classic critique of technological society (1964). Ellul famously defines his all-encompassing notion of technique as, the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute... 

Son, W.-C. (2013). Are we still pursuing efficiency Interpreting Jacques Ellul s efficiency principle. In H. M. Jeronimo, J. L. Garcia, C. Mitcham (Eds.), Jacques Ellul and the technological society in the list century (pp. 49-62). Dordrecht Springer. 

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