"The Technological Society"

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The paper examines how Jacques Ellul, in his work "The Technological Society", critiques the history of technique and highlights the myth that we are evolving towards some better state of being with our technological advances. The paper devotes time to explaining how science and medicine is increasingly focusing on making man more technically efficient. The writer believes that Ellul does a thorough job of tracing the characteristics, causes and effects of technology in society.

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"Jacques Ellul analyzed the standardization of life through the proliferation of technique in his book The Technological Society. In his book Ellul sets out to track and critique the history of technique. In his book, however, certain questions arise about the fate of technique. Ellul does a good job of curbing the tendency to look at technology in terms of the progress myth. Many of the branches of technique he elaborates on in his work, such as politics, police, and man, have become even more advanced in today's society."

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