01009nam a2200169Ia 4500 230823s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97808164900730816490074 eng HM221 .E4313 1980 Ellul, Jacques The technological system / Jacques Ellul New York : Continuum, 1980 vi, 362 p. ; 24 cm. 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. Technology and civilization.Technologie Aspect social.Technologie et civilisation. 46210 46210