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diff --git a/illich-on-technology.txt b/illich-on-technology.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a33cb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/illich-on-technology.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +He predicted in “Tools for Conviviality” that, should technology not be restrained and the “balances” proper to nature and society restored, the consequence would be an increasingly “uninhabitable” social and natural environment in which personal initiative would shrink, polarization would grow, “all bridges to a normative past” would be broken, and “the world [would be] transform[ed]… into a treatment ward in which people are constantly taught, socialized, normalized, tested and reformed.” This seems to me a pretty accurate pencil sketch of the present moment, even if the “uninhabitability” is unevenly distributed |