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A life-changing truth about technology

Mark Coeckelbergh and Michael Funk (Vienna): Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Technology: Tool Use, Forms of Life, Technique, and a Transcendental Argument. Roxana-Ionela Achiricesei, Mihaela Boboc, Ioan Mircea Turculet (Suceava): Why We Fail in a Technological World. Does the west want what technology wants? The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t. All the great inventions took painstaking, risky, indirect routes to fruition — has Silicon Valley really escaped history? Scientists warn we may be creating a “digital dark age”: Much of our digital information is at risk of disappearing in the future.