Virilio

Thank you AT - you always give me something interesting to look up and read - in this case Paul Virilio and his understanding of Technology. Not sure why I've never heard of him given a long-term interest in philosophy & technology but am familiar (and once listened to a lecture by) one of his fellow thinking countrymen, Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society, 1968 I think).
Neat senryu too.

Thanks for the note Josh ... Jacques Ellul is on the reading list; these French philosophers are really interesting chaps.  I remember the mathematician Marcel-Paul Schützenberger and, well ... to challenge Darwinism is sort-of cool.

Ellul is rather turgid reading (be warned) and may be best to read those who have summarised his work. You might find something on SPT (Society for Philosophy and Technology" (spt.org) - of course on The international Jacques Ellul Society (ellul.org).
I found him interesting originally as a "marxist-christian" who fought in the French resistance, arbitrated in the 1968 student riots, wrote 40 books, founded youth-groups for struggling teenagers, and more; amazing what some people achieve. I heard him speak at Bordeaux University at an SPT annual conference, and where he long held a professorship.

thanks for the extra notes ... v interesting.