DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i03.023

Pages: 743-752

Even though we commit to improve our lives through technology, unconsciously, we also constrain our conception of the self. Technology puts into question the relations between human dignity and authentic human development. It relentlessly tends to transform humans into a vast store of resources to be disposed of at will to the point that human nature has no purpose of its own except to serve the ends of technology. In the technological frame, humans are self-alienated and reduced to measurable units of production and consumption, thereby outgrowing their capacity for self-determination.