At the same time, technology acts as if it were independent of us. The relationship between human being and machine has become something like a complex symbiosis. . . It is only through self-awareness and inner adjustment that I can restrict the hammer in my hand to its proper role. I must multiply the effort a millionfold when dealing with a vastly more complex technology-one expressing in a much more insistent manner its own urgencies. Only with a persistent awareness of this reality can we hope to maintain the necessary tension of extremes.
Technophilia requires a heightened consciousness of our technological dilemma.
Given how far we have gone in permitting technology to get out of control due to our own unconsciousness, developing a genuine technophilia will be a real work on our part, no easy or assured panacea.