Both from Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity, by Lorenzo C. Simpson:
“[‘Technology’] refers to that set of practices whose purpose is, through ever more radical interventions into nature […], systematically to place the future at our disposal […] through hastening the achievement of a goal located in the future; through control over what occurs in the future […], and through maintaining a given state while containing and reducing the period of deviations from it.” (p. 24)
“The technological reduction reduces experience to resources, tools and products, just as the scientific ‘world’ consists of constructs and pointer readings. We might then well understand science and technology as forms of life, but they are forms of life lacking ‘depth’; that is, they are essentially worldless.” (p. 48)
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