Technique perfection

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The Perfection of Technology is a technology-critical essay by Friedrich Georg Jünger that was published in 1946. In the later editions, Jünger incorporated his second technology-critical work "Machine and Property" and added an appendix entitled "The World Wars" to "The Perfection of Technology".

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According to Jünger, there are several illusions associated with mechanization: the illusion that technology is relieving people of work and that they thereby gain free time and the illusion that technology creates wealth.

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  • Friedrich Georg Jünger: The Perfection of Technology, Frankfurt am Main 1946.
  • Friedrich Georg Jünger: The Perfection of Technology, fourth, reviewed and greatly increased edition, Frankfurt am Main 1953