The evolving machine¿the larger context of modern technology

Man seems destined to estrange himself from his natural environment. He does not wish to isolate himself in this way, but seems likely, nevertheless, to do so in the end. As a true creature of technology, man would become a particularly curious evolutionary phenomenon, and his metamorphosis would raise fundamental questions about the nature of evolution itself. Some aspects of these questions, which would increasingly involve technology on its own account, are discussed in this article.