Knowing/Making

George Grant argued that “Modern technology is not simply an extension of human making through the power of a perfected science, but a new account of what it is to know and to make in which both activities are changed by their co-penetration. We hide the difficulty of thinking that novelty, because in our implied ‘histories’ it is assumed that we can understand the novelty only from within its own account of knowing, which has itself become a kind of making.”

This sounds like a Platonic complaint against post-Renaissance poietic accounts of knowledge and making. In which case, put me on the side of the poiets.

Only theology – not Platonism – overcomes technological idolatry.