How Long to Read The Technological Society

How Long Does it Take to Read The Technological Society?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 53 minutes to read The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press

How long is The Technological Society?

The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul is 531 pages long, and a total of 133,281 words.

This makes it 179% the length of the average book. It also has 163% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Technological Society Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 8 minutes to read The Technological Society aloud.

What Reading Level is The Technological Society?

The Technological Society is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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