Age Like Milk

Amplify Consequences

Create Acceleration

Create Dependence

Create Friction Across Generations

Create Leverage

Create Their Own Problems

Cut Both Ways

Extend Reach

Punish Assumptions

Transform Whatever They Touch

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is a deleterious force that corrupts culture and debases human beings.

human gains of technics have been forfeited by perversion in the interesters of a pecuniary economy' (1934 Technics and Civilization)

is a game pertaining not to the true, the just, or the beautiful, etc., but to efficiency. What is good is that which expends less energy.

Technology is therefore a game pertaining not to the true, the just, or the beautiful, etc., but to efficiency: a technical 'move' is 'good' when it does better and/or expends less energy than another.Morality disappears under such a regimen, and that is yet another significant move away from the realm of the human.

is a kind of practical rationality guided by an explicit aim.

a practical rationality governed by a conscious aim.

is a mediation between human being and the world, and thus a dialectic of perception.

For Ihde, technology is a mediation between human being and the world and, additionally, it is a dialectic of perception (Ihde 1993: 46)

is a primary medium in equal company with language and art.

He is not content merely to include technology as yet another system of human activities alongside the others already on the list. The essay addresses far more fundamental questions concerning the tool character of language and the theoretical work performed by material instruments, proceeding to advance technology as a primary medium in equal company with language and art.

Technology is a resource liberating force.

is a social phenomenon through and through, (therefore amounting to society), not a separate sphere dominating it and transforming its values.

But if technology and society are not substantial 'things' belonging to separate spheres, it makes no sense to claim that technology dominates society and transforms its values. Rather, technology is a social phenomenon through and through, no more nor less significant than any other social phenomenon. (Feenberg 2003 : html)

is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lous Lange

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