“We know from experience that technology can be changed. We have learned in the quality-of-working-life enterprise not to accept the technological imperative.”

—  Eric Trist

Eric Trist cited in: Alternatives. Vol 8 (1980). Trent University, University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies, p. 146

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