Tecnology, modernity and politics

Abstract

On the basis of a distinction between two kinds of theories of technology (one believing in the benefits of the progress of a scientific rationality and the other casting doubts on this) the author examines the question of the new technologies in our days, given a political framework in which the grand proposals for transforming human nature are no longer feasible but the network of small actual interventions raises from another standpoint the risk of the "tirany of the technological possibilities".