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Information is not Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Denis De Rougemont
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One of the principal reasons for the confusion in which recent technological developments, and developments in the physical, chemical and biological sciences generally, have plunged us, consists in our inability to harmonise our means and our ends, to subordinate the former to the latter, to verify constantly their appropriateness or their incompatibility, and to evaluate their overall relation to man's final ends.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 29 , Issue 116 , December 1981 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © 1981 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 S. Nora and A. Minc, L'Informatisation de la Société, Paris, La Documen tation française, 1978.

2 See Du côté de chez Swann, Vol. 1.

3 For example, Pierre Drouin, Le Monde, 12 November 1980. "In certain sectors—and such is the case for electronics—progress in technology is going much faster than needs."

4 See the article by Dr. Klaus Schrape, "Psychologische Folgen der neuen Informationstechnologie," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 20 May, 1980.

5 Example quoted by J. Maisonrouge before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 13 October, 1969.

6 D. de Rougemont, Lettres sur la bombe atomique, New York and Paris, 1946.

7 Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, physician and author of aphorisms, admired by Goethe, Kant and Nietzsche.

8 Le Monde, 29 March, 1981.

9 Lausanne, May, 1980.