Thinking about Technology

How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality

By: Gil Germain

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The world we make reflects the way reality is perceived, and today the world is perceived primarily in technological terms. So argues Gil Germain in Thinking About Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality. Given the connection between perception and action, or thinking and doing, Germain first highlights the central features of technological worldview to better understand the contemporary drive to master the conditions of human existence. He then boldly proposes that the technological worldview seriously misreads the nature of the world it seeks mastery over, and shows how this misinterpretation invariably leads to the technologically-related challenges currently vexing the contemporary social order, from the drift toward a posthuman future to the anti-globalization backlash. Germain closes Thinking About Technology by articulating an alternative worldview to the technological perspective and illustrating how this re-reading of reality might help us inhabit the technological landscape in ways better attuned to the human condition.

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Germain’s examination of the effect of technology on modern man is certainly welcome. . . Thinking About Technology is at its best when discussing Saunders’ “Jon”. . . Germain analyzes the story with both style and substance, leading the reader to wish for a standalone piece situating “Jon” amongst the enduring debates of political philosophy.