Technology never advances towards anything because it is pushed from behind. The technician does not know why he is working, and generally he does not much care… . There is no call towards a goal; there is constraint by an engine placed in the back and not tolerating any halt for the machine… . The interdependence of technological elements makes possible a very large number of “solutions” for which there are no problems.

DEFINE: Contrasts teleological views of technology with a mechanistic, momentum-based account. XREF: Resonates with ideas of technological determinism and unintended innovation overflow.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 394