Task 12 NIE - Tool or Medium

According to some views, people who have born after 1980 are from different generation as they have grown up with the connection of technology, it is comfortable and natural for them. There is much smaller difference between our parents and grandparents than there is between us and our parents. It doesn't matter that our parents or grandparents can't use the technology today, but it makes them basically visitors in this world, who don't grasp the whole picture.
I really liked the way how Feenberg explained different theories and how he made introduction to it form historical point of view. With his logical explanations and text flow, it was quite obvious that as the last thing he will explain and persuade the reader with his critical overview. At least it happened to me.
The other article by Rückriem was really difficult to read, he does have really important points from psychology and cognition, but his way of explanations is not so well grabbed by a person who is not so much into this research field.
Feenberg compares technological development with economy - we couldn't have thought 100 years ago that economy could be run with democratic ways - but we do see it today. He thinks that same happens with technology. And I agree with him  - especially from the point of view our next generations will be. They won't know the time there was no cellphone or a computer in hand immediately. But I don't think that we could say technology runs us, but we still will have means to hold control on these things.
I am also concerned of the world - where does it go, do we really need God's help like Heidegger said. We have run really far with the technological sprint - yes it's sprint when we compare it with the long history we had before, and what we have achieved and ruined within so short time through 20th century. But at the same time, it is a really short time, and we should make too strong conclusions based on only 100 years of our history. THe next generations borned in the world of technology, they will experience these things differently from us.
I would even say that the generation born after 1990 is different from the ones before - those born before can still remember the time when there wasn't cellphones, or even common landline phones at every home, so they can compare the things inside their head, they really felt it and have their own experiences. The young ones, born after 1990, they can learn the history but they don't have their own perceptions and real experiences with these things. Although I feel sorry for them and happy for myself - I can remember the time when most of the technological tools we have today weren't common and I can handle all the technological things really well, I also hope that my fear of younger generation going to waste, is not what is going to happen. But they will find their own way - all the generations always have found.