ENGL 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Martin Heidegger, Future Science Fiction And Science Fiction Stories, Artificiality
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There are eras in technology: there is evolution, as in technology is self-moving, it is a feedback system. It processes, how", evaluates how it does something. It learns from itself and collects its own data. Technology is no longer just about producing products, but producing data. Main feature of technology as a system is that it is integrating and integrated, there is a structuring, system, relationships, the pieces have impacts on one another. Any one piece changes, then the whole changes. The pieces will adapt if one piece changes, as opposed to the whole system going down if one piece changes. It is an integrating system that takes other things and integrates it into itself. The family itself is then integrated into technology. You begin with someone outside the system, then he is slowly integrated into the system despite protesting. You could say all these eras occur in an enframing (heidegger)