The book on &#x27;Aramis&#x27; mentioned is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aramis,_or_the_Love_of_Technology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aramis,_or_the_Love_of_Technol...</a> ; I picked it up by chance in the room of an anthropology student many years ago and found it fascinating.<p>It&#x27;s a sociologist&#x27;s view of an engineering project management failure, and therefore requires a bit of unfamiliar jargon to interpret. It concerns itself with the question &quot;what is progress and modernity?&quot; quite a bit, as projects like PRT are self-conscious attempts to build a futuristic technology rather than an incrementalist approach of meeting immediate demands.