ABSTRACT
Automated uniformity and robotic inerrancy have given us a form of efficient, low-cost production that is highly prized in today’s business environment. Through such means, we have created a world of things that are machine-made, digitally exact, affordable and more or less reliable. If one equates progress with technological advancement, then all this will seem of great benefit to society. But the sell-by date of the technocratic ideology on which these achievements are based has long since passed, because it is an ideology that has been taking us ever closer to a future that is more monotonous, less human and less humane. Abstraction, rationalism and reductionism may still hold sway in corporate boardrooms and government departments but their inadequacies and grave repercussions are becoming increasingly apparent.
