Status Updates From Technopoly: The Surrender o...

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born. . .It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers—that is to say, as markets.”

“Once a technology is admitted, it plays out its hand; it does what it is designed to do. Our task is to understand what that design is—that is to say, when we admit a new technology to the culture, we must do so with our eyes wide open.”