Peter Watson on technology: "Rather than offer universal solutions to the human condition of the kind promised by most religions and some political theorists, science looks out on the world piecemeal and pragmatically. Technology addresses specific issues and provides the individual with greater control and/or freedom in some particular aspect of life. Not everyone will find 'the gadget' a suitably philosophical response to the great dilemmas of alienation, or ennui. I contend that it is."