authoritarian technology

is a system-centered, immensely powerful and unstable kind of technology. Contrasted with a technology that is democratic, man-centered, and relatively weak, but resourceful and durable.

from late neolithic times in the Near East, right down to our own day, two technologies have recurrently existed side by side: one authoritarian, the other democratic, the first system-centered, immensely powerful, but inherently unstable, the other mancentered, relatively weak, but resourceful and durable.'' (Winner 1980 : 1)

authoritarian technology, n.All

authoritarian technology