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‘[...] technology is not neutral, composed of tools that can be used for good or evil depending on the user. [...] it comes with an inevitable logic, bearing the purposes and the values of the economic system that spawns it’ — Kirkpatrick Sale, REBELS AGAINST THE FUTURE
‘For the fact of the matter is that, contrary to the technophilic propaganda, technology is not neutral, [...] What was true of the technology of industrialism at the beginning, when the apologist Andrew Ure praised a new machine that replaced high-paid workmen – “This invention confirms the great doctrine already propounded, that when capital enlists scieence in her service, the refractory hand of labour will always be taught docility” – is as true today, when a reporter for Automation could praise a computer system as “significant” because it assures that “decision-making” is “removed from the operator [and] gives maximum control of the machine to management”. These are not accidental, ancillary attributes of the machines that are chosen; they are intrinsic and ineluctable.’

— Kirkpatrick Sale, REBELS AGAINST THE FUTURE
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