Another hypothesis: Simondon was right and each technology has an inherent tendency which shapes what’s possible. Virilio was also right in suggesting the new f

Another hypothesis: Simondon was right and each technology has an inherent tendency which shapes what’s possible. Virilio was also right in suggesting the new forms of accidents that come along with an invention are more important than the invention itself. The negative technical tendency of industrial technology was weapons of destruction and machines for murder, which led us to world war 2, proving that the technical zeitgeist of industrial mechanics had surpassed its rationality and was no longer tenable. The negative technical tendency of information technology is the proliferation and rapid spread of misinformation which leads us to, well the present I guess.