This project was first conceived in the winter of 1981-2 and is the literary, or philosophical, sequel, in a sense, to 'The Way of Evolution', a volume of essays dating from 1981. Like that, this project also embraces technology in relation to transcendentalism, which is at the crux of its central argument; that being the importance of technology from a transcendental standpoint, and it could pose a new challenge both to how we regard technology and the purposes to which we would ideally like to see it harnessed in the decades and centuries to come.
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By John O'Loughlin
Sep 25, 2011
"THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY ..." Comprised of severl dialogues and an aphoristic appendix, both of which have more axial relevance than one might at first suppose, this compilation dates from the early 1980s and is thus reflective of the continuing fascination with transcendentalism which first occurred in John O'Loughlin's writings at around that time or, to be more precise, in 1980, with the previous volume of dialogues entitled 'The Transcendental Future'. Be that as it may, this more substantial collection of dialogues than anything previously undertaken by the author underlines the importance of technology to the development of transcendentalism in a global age, so that technology becomes harnessed to transcendentalism rather than, as is usually the case at present, having an overly scientific disposition more suggestive of materialism and even fundamentalism. Therefore 'The Importance of Technology to the Transcendental Future' both harks back to the earlier title... More > and heralds what hopefully has still to transpire with the dawning of a more enlightened age.< Less
