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the agent of choice …

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

… in a technological society “the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice… He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.” In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments. Jacques Ellul, 1964

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Future of Work, Obituaries, Politics, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: 1964, agent of choice, human beings, instruments, technological society

Potato chips: A symptom of the U.S. R&D problem

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A telling and troublesome article on the state of US innovation … Potato chips: A symptom of the U.S. R&D problem U.S. competitiveness remains in peril even as other nations gear up to steam ahead By Janet Raloff Web edition : Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 This new report describes growing signs that America is losing … [Read more…]

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What is good for the people …

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

What is good for the people is good for business.

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Start here

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Vincent van Gogh – Letter to Theo 1889 … To be good – many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm – and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, History, Thinking about Tagged: a blank canvas, the painter, Vincent van Gogh
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