author: Ivan Illich content: "Machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's\ \ lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic\ \ devices do indeed have the power to force people to \"communicate\" with them\ \ and with each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not\ \ fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by\ \ their use.\r\n\r\nThe machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics\ \ constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for\ \ most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening\ \ effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent,\ \ narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people\ \ cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.\r\n" id: b8f87167-2da4-4b3a-b65e-83f1afb3954f