Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life with new, technologically advanced, more efficient methods.
What exactly is progressive or efficient about this new arrangement is hardly ever examined in depth: if the new ways of doing things are so much better, then we must all be leading relaxed, stress-free, enjoyable lives with plenty of free time to devote to art and leisure activities.
New Society Publishers Shrinking the technosphere: getting a grip on technologies that limit our autonomy, self-sufficiency and freedom, paperback/dmitry orlov
