Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

"And if I give you all that," asked Norbert feverishly, "you'reautonomous?""In any case, I am an automobile without a human driver. ObviouslyI'm not all alone. I have the rails, six onboard computers, threeantennae, an encoding service, a decoding service, ten dozen inspectors.""But then you're moving? You're alive?""Let's say that I'm opening one eye. I'm stammering. At theslightest alert, 1 shut down everything and become inert again. 1 fallinto security mode.""And the other one, Shelley, with her monster that goes off onits own to visit Germany and Switzerland without even unhooking itsintravenous tubes! And that learns to read English by studying Milton'sParadise Lost through a crack in the floorboards!""Yes, I didn't want to say anything, Norbert, but that was a littlehard to swallow.""Are you still as sure as ever that the CET engineers are goingto do away with all those multitudes? If we declare this phase innocentas well -and this time, you're the one wh011 do it-we have nothingleft to turn to.""I hope so. In any case, they've done a good job. They're the oneswho've written Paradise Lost. And not in verse.""In what?""In program lines.""We're going to lose our hides here," said Norbert, alarmed bythe unanticipated turn I had given to the investigation. "You work onthe technological specifications. I have to ",rite the report."ARAMIS AT TH[ CET STAGe