Under the pretext of meeting the needs of mankind, nature was used as a standing reserve and, in order to exploit it, man was used in the same way. To me, it seems that the transition to a cognitive society is being accompanied by a change in the essence of technology. A genetic code is a program. Upstream of the industrial system was mining, the extraction of raw materials for processing by industry. Upstream of the cognitive system is metrology, the collection of data to be processed by cognitive processes.
Industry is about production, aimed in theory at meeting the needs of man.
The cognitive system is completely different. It is about consciousness and aims at meeting quite different needs, first, but not solely, the need for knowledge. Hence, the role of science, which in this case goes far beyond providing support for industrial progress, becomes more socially important. In this regard, I will mention only one fact, to help understand the relationship between changes in scientific paradigms and changing outlooks, as historians would say. The fact is that for thousands of years, religions and philosophers have been tirelessly repeating that man is a being apart, whose innate superiority to animals, gives him dominion over nature.