Great Quote:
“Technology, like art, is a soaring
exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering
of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and
the reordering of nature-the qualities of space and time-in
new perceptual and material form. Art is an end in itself;
its values are intrinsic. Technology is the instrumental
ordering of human experience within a logic of efficient
means, and the direction of nature to use its powers for
material gain. But art and technology are not separate realms
walled off from each other. Art employs techne, but for its
own ends. Techne, too, is a form of art that bridges culture
and social structure, and in the process reshapes both.”
Daniel Bell (b. 1919), U.S. sociologist, educator. "Technology,
Nature, and Society," The Winding Passage, Abt Books (1980).
