Technology is pushed on by all too rudimentary and fundamentally human drivers. From curiosity to crisis, fortune to fear, at its heart technology emerges to fill human needs. If people have powerful reasons to build and use it, it will get built and used. Yet in most discussions of technology people still get stuck on what it is, forgetting why it was created in the first place. This is not about some innate techno-determinism. This is about what it means to be human.
Motives Make Machines: The Human Engine of Technology
