Learning & Technology LO18578

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:40:19 +0100

Replying to LO18555 --

At de Lange asked, based on a chain of being-becomings
>[raw material]---innovater creativity--->[technology]--....
>...--user creativity--->[complex culture]
following question:
>have you noticed the pattern X * Y * Z? What can we
>say about technology acting as an umlomo ("mouthpiece", commuter)?

I like to answer with following scheme:

past-----------------------------present-----------------------future
[cause]---causality----->[effect]<-----teleology---[goal]

With this, I offer a definition of technology (which I learnt from Seiichi
Yagi, a japanese christian and buddhist theologist):

Technology comes into the game, when using causality to achieve goals.
Technology applies knowledge - causal knowledge. Thus technology
transforms causality into teleology.

This is a very general definition of technology and not restricted to only
IT or EBIT.

Denying the freedom (openness) of future would impair wholeness in the
sense, that causality is set as the only mode of becoming. A more whole
picture arises with a complementary mode, namely teleology. Both
linked/associated by the "umlomo" technology.

I hope it makes as much sense for you as it does for me.

Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried Dressler

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