[The technological character of the human being].
Technique is not accidental, but essential, to human being. It is the homo sapiens sapiens way of life. There is neither pretechnological human life nor a historic period without it. Human being is making tools and instruments since the very moment he is on earth. And so will he go on. Plough, airship and future apparatus are stages of the technical progress. The enormous human aptitude for making is due to the connexion between brain and hands. Technique ought be neither venerated nor feared but ruled.
Del Barco Collazos
José Luis
JL
Departamento de Filosofía Campus de Teatinos Universidad de Málaga 29071 Málaga. jldelbarco@uma.es
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005544:Forecasting; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D013672:Technology / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends; D053001:Tool Use Behavior