To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s 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.
—Jonathan Franzen in his NYTimes Op-Ed, Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
