It’s one technique that needs to be mastered in modern novel writing if the author is to be authoritative in the modern technological society. The machinery is brought under control (passive!) and humanity is reasserted (passive!).
A non-fiction book available on the Net was my way of offering the more technical materials found during my research, for readers interested in those topics. [ http://weneedtalk.blogspot.com is a link to the links in PDF or html, if anyone is interested in reading the thing now after these years it has been being downloaded for free ]