Frankenstein in the Universe

Can we shape tech­nol­ogy as much as it shapes us? Or do we need to resign our­selves to the specter of tech­nol­ogy out of con­trol? If we do argues Luke Fer­nan­dez, we truly do become its vic­tims:

But even if our lives are con­strained and pushed in cer­tain direc­tions, we have some agency. To deny that would be to suc­cumb to the most nihilis­tic form of tech­no­log­i­cal deter­min­ism. If we believe that we can shape tech­nol­ogy as much as it shapes us we can hold out the hope of at least play­ing some minor role in influ­enc­ing the direc­tion that the uni­ver­sity takes in the infor­ma­tion age.