The Importance of Technology to the Transcendental Future

Book excerpt: This project was first conceived in the winter of 1981-2 and is the literary, or philosophical, sequel, in a sense, to 'The Way of Evolution', a volume of essays dating from 1981. Like that, this project also embraces technology in relation to transcendentalism, which is at the crux of its central argument, that being the importance of technology from a transcendental standpoint, and it could pose a new challenge both to how we regard technology and the purposes to which we would ideally like to see it harnessed