ABSTRACT
This chapter makes a journey with French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. It takes a middle road, steering clear of both extremes, leading to a theory of humanisation that takes concerns as raised above seriously and does not subsume technology to the human and vice versa. First the chapter discusses a philosophical anthropology that relates the human and the technical/technological, following Stiegler. It discerns technics from technology. The chapter discusses briefly how ethics and autonomy can be seen from this perspective. Then it proposes how this theory is a theory of humanisation, and assess how this compares to the essentialist and transhumanist ideals mentioned above. Because the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the chapter discusses the example of information and communication technology (ICT) in educational organisations. ICT has become an everyday phenomenon, not only for most individuals in their private lives, but especially for organisations and the people working within them.
