The question concerning technology

Question 1:

What does first paragraph on page 10, “the common and narrower of ‘occasion ‘ in contrast is nothing more than striking against and releasing , and means a kind of secondary cause within the whole of causality” mean? The instrumental definition of technology is related to causality. And there are four cause: material, form, end and efficiens. Also the example: sliver chalice and silversmith.

Question 2:

`              Page 14, “the revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging, which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that is supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such”. The question is about coal and the hydroelectric plant. Does coal consider as modern technology, based on the character of revealing: setting-upon/ challenging-forth?

Question 3

Page 29, paragraph 2, what is the relationship between enframing and revealing, and enframing with human? “Each of these in its own way indeed belongs as stockpart, available source, or executer, within enframing, but enframing is never the essence of technology in the sense of a genus.”

Spring of mechanization

Question 1:

What is the definition of movement? Oresme’s recognition: “movement can be represented by movement, the changing only by the changing”. Perhaps, this is the definition of changing.

Question 2:

What is the real reason behind the lack of production at 1770? On article, he expressed that economic is the reason of lacking interest in production. But it cannot apply to all cases. There was shipping and cross continent international trading at that time. The earliest traces of merchant capitalism can be found at middle age.

Question 3:

What will be the end product of mechanization? More and more efficient for more mass production? Or now is the end of mechanization?