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Technological change is neither the abstraction of numbers nor the laboratory of the fantasms of rationality but rather the occasion and site of political battles, a confrontation of interests, of passions and of values.

( Le changement technique n'est pas l'abstraction des chiffres ni le laboratoire des fantasmes de la rationalité, mais l'occasion et le lieu de luttes politiques, une confrontation d'intérêts, de passions et de valeurs. ) (p. 271)

See also, Citation #15 at The Waning of Humaneness by Konrad Lorenz, (http://www.librarything.com/work/9866...)

See also, for an extremely insightful analysis of real versus imaginary political participation, a paper J-J Salomon cites and draws upon: A Ladder of Citizen Participation by Sherry R Arnstein, freely accessible at (http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arns...)

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The interpretation of progress has changed, its interpreters have as well. Science discovers, industry applies, but people today no longer follow, no longer conform, no longer accept technological change in the same ways and the same conditions as those by which the laboring people of the era of early industrialisation were exposed to the traumatism of the work site and subjected to the regimentation of the machine.

( La lecture du progrès a changé, ses lecteurs aussi. La science découvre, l'industrie applique, mais l'homme d'aujourd'hui ne suit plus, n'accepte plus le changement technique dans les mêmes conditions que celles dans lesquelles les ouvriers des débuts de l'industrialisation furent exposés au traumatisme du milieu technique et à l'asservissement de la machine. ) (p. 274)