But the topic is much deeper than that. In the production economic world technology plays the part of the inventor. It is technology that creates the new products that replace the old. This causes economic life to be dependent on technology, since, as described earlier, technologies purpose is to make life easier. This dependency on technology has one large effect.
Technology creates a socioeconomic difference among humans.
Only those who can afford to implement the technologycan use it. This effect in turn creates another. Technological advancement leads to concentration. These larger corporations engulf smaller companies to eventually form even biger conglomerates, controlled by a powerful few. According to Ellul, the State only adopts techniques when it finds them already functioning.