Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volume 18, Issue 1/2, Winter/Spring 2014

Celling While Driving

Yoni Van Den Eede
Pages 74-83

On the (In)compatibility of Driving and Phoning
Ask the Technology

In this paper I comment on the arguments put forth by Robert Rosenberger and Galit Wellner on the issue of using a mobile phone while driving a car, and I do this by way of a detour through the work of Kevin Kelly and Marshall McLuhan. While Rosenberger and Wellner focus first and foremost on the possibilities and impossibilities within the human organism, I seek to add to the debate the however experimental standpoint of the technologies “themselves.”