Presentation by Daniel Azuma at RailsConf 2013. An introduction to the philosophy of technology, and a discussion of why it's relevant to the Rails community. For more information, see http://daniel-azuma.com/railsconf2013
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) “Technique itself… selects among the means to be employed. The human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice.” —The Technological Society
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) “…man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing.” —The Question Concerning Technology
Albert Borgmann (1937- ) “…technology is seldom offered as a choice, i.e. as a way of life that we are asked to prefer over others, but is promoted as a basis for choices.” —Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life
Andrew Feenberg (1943- ) “Real change will come…when we… begin to intervene in the design process in the defense of the conditions of a meaningful life and a livable environment.” —Questioning Technology
Samuel Florman (1925- ) “…without imagination, heightened awareness, moral sense, and some reference to the general culture, the engineering experience becomes less meaningful, less fulfilling than it should be.” —The Civilized Engineer
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