TY - BOOK AU - Ellul, Jacques TI - The technological system SN - 97808164900730816490074 AV - HM221 .E4313 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - New York : PB - Continuum, KW - Technology and civilization.Technologie Aspect social.Technologie et civilisation N1 - Part one : What is technology -- Technology as a concept -- Technology as an environment -- Technology as a determining factor -- Technology as a system -- Part two : The charactersitics of the technological phenomenon -- Autonomy -- Unity -- Universality -- Totalization -- Part three : The characteristics of technological progress -- Self-augmentation -- Automatism -- Causal progression and absence of finality -- The problem of acceleration -- Conclusion : Man in the technological system ER -