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Bros, don't forget to read pic related if the subject of technology interests you. Also, have a pdf of the collected writings of Ted : https://ernstchan.xyz/int/src/1544722680-467.pdf

Also, if you liked Ted, give The Failure of Technology by Friedrich Georg Jünger a try. He goes deeper on criticizing technology

Read this.

This is by far the best book on technology I've read. Why is it hardly ever discussed?

Where you should have started

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>You ain't seen nothing yet

"The Perfection of Technology", started in the spring of 1939 and completed in the summer of that year, could not be published until 1946. Publication was not possible during the war years. I would like to point out that despite this impossibility the manuscript was typeset twice – by my editors Benno Ziegler in Hamburg and Vittorio Klostermann in Frankfurt-am-Main. Both the typeset in Hamburg and the finished edition in Freiburg were destroyed in the bombings, with the exception of a few copies. Meanwhile Victor Hammer, a printer in Lexington, KY, USA, who had the manuscript, began printing nine copies by hand with his son, and managed this painstaking and time-consuming work right up to page 60. This was necessary to avoid losing the manuscript. I am greatly indebted to him, his son, and my editors for their efforts. Not everything leads to a goal, but life teaches us that there can be more strength, goodwill, and care in the attempts, even ineffective ones, than in mere success.