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« I defend
the secularization of our approach to any techniques, whatever
they might be*»
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For Philippe Breton, Internet represents
a potential threat to social bonds.
« For many people the revolution of
printing is not yet finished. [The author makes reference to
the millions of illiterates]. One
could fear that the new world - far from reducing differences
in accessing knowledge - rather develops the reinforcement of
the inequality already exsisting. »
« According to the author of the Culte
de l’Internet, it is
necessary to place the function and the potential of Internet
within a sound context, freed from any discourses attributing
to Internet a resulting closed cult. « The problem
of technologist languages is that they advance ideas which through
Internet spontaneously will
alter our existence. Now, no thechnique whatsoever can by itself
bring about any thing »**
* « Vers
une intelligence collective ? » Sciences Humaines, hors-série,
Paris, march 2001
** Philippe Breton, « Le culte de
l’Internet », La Découverte, Paris, 2000
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