I was reading Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance, by #DavidFNoble when I posed the question. I finished it yesterday afternoon and started The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

2 “ … transcendence of the limits imposed on #mankind - lie at the core of the modern cult of #technology.” - #DavidFNoble, #Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance

#Hivemind: the book I’m reading, Progress Without People by #DavidFNoble refers to “a number of short #essays on #technological #progress by #ChristopherLasch but, frustratingly, doesn’t provide any further details about them. Does anyone know what he might be referring to?

“ #IndustrialPolicy really is #social #policy, and the indicators of success should not be the degree of industrial competitiveness or the number of machines or the return on investment, but the level of satisfaction of our #citizens.” - #DavidFNoble, Progress Without People

I’m reading Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance by #DavidFNoble
#books #book #BookSky

4 “Pleas for some #rationality, for reflection about pace & purpose, for sober assessment of costs and benefits - for evidence of economic value, much less larger social gains - are dismissed as irrational” - #DavidFNoble, The #Religion of #Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

3 (continues from last quote from #DavidFNoble) “Thus, unrestrained #technological development is allowed to proceed apace, without serious scrutiny or oversight - without #reason.” 🧵
#technology

2 “This popular #faith, subliminally indulged and intensified by corporate, government, and media pitchmen, inspires an awed deference to the practitioners and their promises of deliverance while diverting attention from more urgent concerns.” - #DavidFNoble, The #Religion of #Technology

“The calamitous events and diabolical designs of the twentieth century weakened the fashionable faith of #modernity by recalling more ancient imaginings.” - #DavidFNoble, The Religion of #Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention