Technology is often described as a set of instruments - things we use to make life easier, faster, or more efficient. Yet technology is also something that shapes us in return: it influences how we see, how we think, and how we exist in the world.

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We begin with the question What is technology? Not the devices in our pockets, but the impulse to build, to systematise, to extend ourselves into the world. We’ll explore how this impulse has always been part of human life - how to make, to measure, to construct is also to imagine and to define what it means to be human.

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In our present moment, this impulse takes a specific form. Information has become the raw material of contemporary life - the medium through which systems organise themselves, adapt, and endure. Habits, decisions, and collective actions are now shaped by data, feedback, and algorithms. To understand technology today is therefore to see how information holds the world together while also governing it, from everyday routines to large-scale infrastructures.

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Once technology is understood in these terms, the boundary between the artificial and the natural begins to blur. Living beings persist by adapting to their environments; technical systems evolve through similar processes of adjustment, integration, and self-regulation. The artificial, in this sense, is not opposed to nature but continuous with it - one of the ways the world reorganises and invents itself in new forms.

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Thinking in the age of AI therefore requires a shift in perspective. Technology is neither an external force to be feared nor an object to be worshipped. It is part of the way life itself now persists, extends, and takes shape, through external supports that increasingly carry memory, attention, and the conditions of human becoming.