“Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.”

—  Jacques Ellul , book The Technological Society

Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. 142

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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

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