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

on on ongoing basis how things are evolving, if you want society to be moresympathetic."But here, with Aramis, no; it was a panacea, and then all at once it wasa very bad thing. We don't know whether it's because it was a technologicalfailure, or because the officials didn't want it, or because it was too expensive."I have to soy that on our port-here I'm speaking on behalf of the electedofficials involved-there's a certain resignation in the face of supreme beings;we're dealing with the realm of the gods. It's a subject on which people don'task any questions, with the ideo that it has cost a great deal of money andthat it's too bad . ."But even so, as you see it, did the officials ' negative reaction play a role?""No, not once; as I see it, it's like the aerotrain. When it became obviousthat it didn't work technologically, then the reaction of people like me, electedofficials, was that the experts should have noticed much sooner that the projectshould have been cut ."But elected officials were often said to have been reticent about Aramis?""I didn't have a negative impression. Some of my colleagues hod a somewhatanxious feeling, as if they'd been abandoned to the mercy of a robot.But it's like VAL-I've done a lot of skiing, the cabins didn't bother me."No, on the whole, we found it rather attractive. The elected officials weren'tagainst it, and that was already a great plus; but they didn't fight for it. It's arealm where they can't fight. In any event, it was taken out of their hands. No,you can't blame Aramis on the elected officials." [no. 37]The elected officials aren't responsible; they have no technologicalinformation except press clippings (and I know how trustworthy thoseare), and they weren't kept informed about anything. But the funniestpart is that here is an official who is perfectly prepared to accepttechnological uncertainties as long as he is kept informed. ThisM_ Pierret has a lot marc good sense than many of them; he wouldagree with Ficheur_ The point of the CET is to explore the technologicalsnags, not to let "supreme beings" "play with their toys." M. Pierretunderstands the hazards of the research process better than the techniciansdo. Necessarily: as a politician, he's well-acquainted with longshots.