Ellus wrote about "a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity" Preserving old ways is a tiny f

Ellus wrote about "a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity" Preserving old ways is a tiny fraction of human activity, and those preserved 'old ways' are themselves a tiny fraction of all 'old ways'. Very few people are doing so as their main (professional) activity. Even those preserving some old way often either say that it offers various advantages (i.e. it is 'more efficient' upon the set of criteria they chose), or (for a IMHO very minute fraction of them) are into some form of challenge expressed as 'what can I achieve, given a very limited set of resources?'... which also is a quest for efficiency (in a constrained environment). The central thesis is that technique is 'autonomous' (has it own dynamics), has a major influence on any society using it, and that there is nothing we can do to 'smooth out' this influence.