The Essence of Technology

For the vast majority of time, human beings ave ben loking at trees. The potentiality for a piece of that tree to become a rolling pin has always been there, hidden within nature. This is as true of the wheel as it is of the nuclear power plant. But something very, very different about this process of revealing in modern technology. It's like an artisan producing something its it's a craftsmanship. A dosin will have certain raw materials, and they'll arrange or dissect these raw materials in order to bring about a chair or a cup, or any new piece of technology. And let's be honest, none of you people ever get emotionally attached to rocks. You