The Technium: The Positive Balance of Technology
[Translations: Japanese] The Italian newspaper la Repubblica asked if I could summarize my book, What Technology Wants, in no more than 1,500 words. I can’t compress to that extent, but I can present one thesis: that technology has a moral … Continue reading →
[Translations: Japanese] The Italian newspaper la Repubblica asked if I could summarize my book, What Technology Wants, in no more than 1,500 words. I can’t compress to that extent, but I can present one thesis: that technology has a moral dimension. In this short piece I argue as briefly as I can that there is a positive charge to technology’s path. (The essay appears here in Italian.) In the past few months, this is the talk that I’ve given when asked to introduce the book. Before Charles Darwin the study of natural history was just an endless collection of specimens displayed in glass…
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