More on 'technology,' both useful and productive.

“Technologies may indeed ‘influence’ us, but only because all our actions influence our future actions. All of our actions – whether creative or repetitive – are structured by enduring dispositions and techniques of the body. While technologies may contribute to shaping practice, it is only because practice is always shaped by the sedimentary history within it, even as its spontaneity becomes the basis for the creation of new practices, experiences, and social relations….When we obliterate the long-imagined distinction between technology and society, we are able to unite what is ordinarily separated and distinguish what is ordinarily confused” (Sterne, Bourdieu, Technique and Technology, 2003, p.387).