I ntroduction richard feist chantal beauvais rajesh shukla T he title “Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity” reveals this book’s particular perspective on technology. That is, technology is seen as a kind of “living force,” an element of human life that demands our reflection and, ultimately, our moral choices. In other words, this book rejects what could be called the neutral view of technology, which holds technology simply to be an ensemble of tools, or more generally, physical objects and the specific uses to which these objects are put. This neutral view is widely held, for it neatly dovetails with the common notion of free will (albeit free will has no single universally accepted definition). To be free is to be able to make unforced decisions, to think one’s own thoughts. Most people would characterize this freedom of thought as an ultimate freedom, as opposed to the political notion
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