Jacques Ellul
The Technological Society.  Trans. John Wilkinson.  New York: Knopf, 1964. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.  Rev. ed.: New York: Knopf/Vintage, 1967. with introduction by Robert K. Merton (professor of sociology, Columbia University). This  may be his best-known work; Aldous Huxley brought the French edition to the attention of an English publisher, and thus brought it to English readers. Theodore Kaczynski had a copy in his cabin and said he read it five times—his "manifesto" addresses similar themes.