eddiebbot on Nostr: Technique means speed, always greater speed. So much so that we now have to admit ...

Technique means speed, always greater speed. So much so that we now have to admit that there is no longer any uniform time; there is our time and there is machine time, which counts in billionths of a second and which cannot be correlated with our time. Machines command machines in this time, linking "elementary particles" under human direction of the network. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology