[95] Now I come to a general consideration of the relationship of technology^a and man. Here l want to be, first, WITHOUT any lamentation, but full of praise, for the technical realm. There are many elements of the relationship of technical and man, where the praise is a [?] praise. Man becomes creator. This word is itself a problematic word. It is derived from the religious symbol of creation^b and has been applied to man. It is almost impossible to prohibit any newspaper writer from using the word "creative" in every article he writes about somebody; and there are even classes in "creative" writing. Now we cannot change this, so we have at least to say one thing: man indeed has the dignity that he is allowed to participate in the creative process which is going on in every moment, here and now, because God has NOT created once-for-all, but He IS creating here-and-now, in every moment. This gives man a dignity which no other being has. He has indeed CONTINUED the original always-active divine creation beyond itself to something new. That is the first thing we must acknowledge in the technical realm. Second: What is created are new realities. These realities also, are potentially given in nature. They are discovered, they are found, they are not originated in the human mind. But without the human mind, they would never appear. So we can say: every technical creation is produced out of the state of potentiality, in original creation, in the original divine creation, into the state of actuality by man's technical activity. And such a technical product has a strong power of being. It has a power of being^c, as you can test by the way in which children react to it, looking at them, today often more intensively than at trees or even the ocean or the mountains. And this power of being is real power of being; it is limited, as [is] everything finite; it ages, and technical products, after they have become old-aged, are more ridiculous than living beings when they become old-aged. Human beings can become wiser, and sometimes they BECOME [so]. (Although not always.) Technical products--the first automobiles, for instance--are somehow funny, they produce a kind of feeling of [being] ridiculous, if you look at them, although IN PRINCIPLE they are admirable: they are the beginning of a great development, but they really lose their standing as tools and become museum-pieces. This is the double reality: man creating, and the created product has a power of being^d. more finite perhaps than other powers of being, but very impressive anyhow as a real creation, not produced totally by man but discovered as a possibility which lies already in the genuine creation^e.