The Design Imperative

What is energy good for?

A little background: simply put, energy performs work, which underlies all economic activity. From a human perspective, work (in the physics sense of the word) is relevant because it produces quality of life.

Technology is nothing more than a design for converting work into a product, which may or may not be associated with quality of life. Finally, the harnessing of concentrated energy

Allow me now to suggest a new term, borrowing (loosely) from Jacques Ellul: Technics. While