Technological production ends up determining the ends it was meant to serve

Evidence

The reconstruction of the world and of human beings through their own scientific and technological production would lead to the apparently paradoxical position that the means that made the process possible would also determine its ends, since human thought was no longer capable of anticipating the scientific and technological self-creation of humanity that was taking place. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 615

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion of means and ends — where anticipation itself becomes impossible — is the strong form of the argument, worth sitting with rather than summarizing.
• XREF: Directly echoes the earlier claim that science’s determinism and philosophy’s free will jointly blame determined subjects.