> The end-game · Efficiency, taken to the max, can get very dark.
This is the main point behind most of the works of Jacques Ellul, we're re-discovering it at our own expense decades later.
> The Ellulian concept of technique is briefly defined within the "Notes to Reader" section of The Technological Society (1964). It is "the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity.
This is the main point behind most of the works of Jacques Ellul, we're re-discovering it at our own expense decades later.
> The Ellulian concept of technique is briefly defined within the "Notes to Reader" section of The Technological Society (1964). It is "the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul