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

ARAMIS IS READY TO GOWhen I went into the laboratory director's lavishly appointedoffice, I knew right away that something was wrong. Norbert H. wasnot available, I was told. But given the reputation of the team and therapidly approaching deadline, even though my status as a simple internmade the request unusual, still, the recent discoveries of my professor,and with all the interview notes it would be easy, and Norbert thoughtvery highly of me . . . In short, I was going to have to draft the reportmyself, in a week's time."And since you're an engineer," the director told me, "I'd likeyou to make a special point of finding out whether or not it's technologicallyfeasible."I had to dig back through the files on my own, and go back overthe transcripts of all fifty interviews. I found out that my professor'sarchives were not nearly as well organized as the RATP's.[DOCUMENT: RATP, "RAPPORT G E NERAL SUR lE D E ROUlEMENT DE l'OPERATlON,"JANUARY 1988, P. 53: CONClUSION OF THE lAST OFFICIAL DOCUMENT WRITTENAT THE END OF PHASE 4, AFTER THE ARAMIS PROJECT WAS TERMINATED]The results of the CET Arami s -boulevard Victor operat ionare the following;-The team has mastered microprocessor-based aCJtomat.iontechniques as applied to automated transportation systems .