In 1954, the French Christian philosopher Jacques Ellul published a warning that the world was not ready to hear.
In The Technological Society, he argued that the modern obsession with technique—efficiency, optimization, and the relentless pursuit of the one best way to do anything—was quietly fragmenting the human person from the inside. Human beings are “created with a certain essential unity,” Ellul wrote, "and [are] fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.” His remedy was not a retreat from civilization but a more demanding engagement with it: a refusal to accept the world as it is and an insistence on the world as God meant it to be.
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