The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that__ indifferent to our wishes _ a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance _ with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
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The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that__ indifferent to our wishes _ a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance _ with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
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