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Perhaps what we fear most about technology is ourselves. For better or worse, technology’s evolution and our own are inseparable.
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David McGavock on 25 Jun 11I think this is spot on. Technology tempts us, pulls us to go one way or the other. We are concerned about it taking control of us, isolating us from other things and relationships we value, corrupting us. To eat the apple or not, that is the questions.
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the work of Diamond, Jacobs and Florida all have in common is that they describe technology very much like Heidegger – as an uncovering. However, they all argue, quite rightly, that the work of uncovering technological principles requires an environment conducive to creativity; including prosperity, leisure time and opportunities for a diversity of ideas to mix.
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What Does Technology Want? So is technology more worthy of our admiration or our fear? Kevin Kelly, in his book What Technology Wants, argues for both. He describes a neverending chain of solutions to problems that create still newer problems.
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Technology, therefore, is somewhat dependent on precursors. What you start out with will help to determine what you end up with.
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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if technology is something to love or to fear. Are computers making us smarter or dumbing us down? Are genetically modified foods a miracle or a menace? What’s really scary is how little control we have over it.
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Whatever we might think or feel, technology will progress and we need to decide for ourselves how we will interact with it. Yet before we can do that, we need to understand how it evolves into being.