Some 20 years after writing The Technological Society Jacques Ellul realized how the totalistic dimensions of our modern technological milieu required an additional treatment of the topic. Writing amidst the rise of books in the 1970s on pollution over-population and environmental degradation Ellul found it necessary once again to write about the global presence of technology and its far-reaching effects. The Technological System represents a new stage in Elluls research. Previously he studied t