The Techno-Human Condition

In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz
explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape
the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain
a commitment to fundamental human values.Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since
the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological
interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out -- even as we also remake the Earth system
itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such
categories as "human," "technological," and "natural" to embrace a new
techno-human relationship.