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

and Daimler-Benz are real, important, and exciting. What is at stake,owing to the fusion between the worlds of continous kinematics and publictransportation, is a compromise. Innovation always comes from a blendingor redistribution of properties that previously had been dispersed. Prior tothe fusion of kinematics and public transportation, no one had noticed thatthe transport function could be separated from the access function. Thisdistinction is what allows the technological compromise to emerge: let'sinvent a system that never slows down and that nevertheless allows forpersonalized access. Aramis is a textbook case. No one in his or her rightmind can be opposed to a PRT that marries, fuses, blends the private carwith public transportation, a project that saves us from asphyxiation. Noone can criticize the management of a project that leaves the future open,that does not make premature judgments about the technological components.Neither wicked capitalists nor purveyors of useless gadgets are thedriving force behind this effort. No, it is a matter of real inventions designedto meet real needs proposed by real public servants and supported by realscientists. A dream, yes, a dream. In any case, it is paved with goodintentions."Always assume that people are right, even if you have to stretchthe point a bit. A simple rule, my dear pupil, when you're studying aproject. You put yourself at the peak of enthusiasm, at the apex, thepoint when the thing is irresistible, when what you really want, yourself,is to take out your checkbook so you can, I don't know ""Buy a share in the Chunnel?""That's it, or even shares in the Concorde.""Even in La Villette?""Which one, the first scandal or the second?""The second.""Oh, the La Villette museum. I don't know; it's a disaster, butafter all, why not, it had to be tried . Never say it's stupid. Say: If Iwere in their shoes, I'd have done the same thing.""Even in that business of the sniffer planes?""Of course, silly boy, you would have bought into it, and notbecause you're naIve ; on the contrary, precisely because you're a cleverAN EXCITING INNOVAT ION