Article
French
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Abstract
Pierre Bézier (1910-1999) was major innovator in the field of automation and industrial computing. He was a Renault engineer and technician of his time, proud of his achievements high-tech industry throughout his career (1920-1980). Meanwhile the social science researchers produced an abundant literature that reflected the machinist phenomenon and proposed theories about social transformations arising therefrom. My point is that there was a distorted mirror between these two worlds. I confront the experience of an engineer to the evolution of the industrialist literature through Bézier’s personal archives combined with Renault’s company records. Many social science controversies about machines are absent of the practitioner’s files and vice-versa. Sometimes they match and other times they compete. Culture and technology have separate agendas...