ABSTRACT
Human society is engaged in a perilous endeavor with respect to technical systems. A human factor currently takes technology as given and seeks to facilitate interaction, assuming technology to be a good thing. Technology is often associated with what is new, modern, and exciting. Technology, whether knowledge or artifact, is our major way of changing the world we live in. Already there is teleology in the very basis of technology. Technology then becomes the purposive ways in which the environment has been structured to benefit humankind. The original arguments against the Darwinian perspective of natural selection as the intrinsic force of evolution were manifold. Co-evolution, the mutual shaping of constituent members of an ecosystem, is dynamic and explorative. The delusion is anthropomorphic in nature and relies on biological assumptions. The assumptions are that because machines are not self-replicating in the way that biological systems are self-replicating, then the proliferation of technical systems is controllable.
