• Can a highly organized technological society offer fulfilling work to its members, or must they be reduced to cogs in the machine?

• Can bureaucracies and the workplace be reshaped to allow more freedom, initiative, participation, and non-alienating ac- tivity, or are we condemned to bureaucratic and technocratic domination?

• Can the citizens of contemporary societies recover the energy and initiative necessary for a democratic public life, or have they been permanently stifled by mindless work and entertain- ment?

• Does technological progress condemn us to live and work un- der the control of technocratic experts and smart machines, or can we find more democratic ways to deploy our technologies and organize our society?