the absolution of obsolete technology
The progression of humankind relies on the advancement of technology. The advancement of technology is not the advancement of products, the advancement of electronic capability. The progression of technology is through the equal access of technology. That being said, I am specifically heated at the tendency for electronics corporations to constantly require updates, data extensions, location services. They don't serve human kind as they serve themselves in the idea of plastic growth. Minutes and plans, 10.3.4.2.3 OS lion snow dragon X cheetah. Computers should run for their masters. The ones that work to build them. The use of our work is abstracted against us, as a commodity, traded away...To "serve us". What is to control of the fate of technology? Is it the unintelligible and alienated profit-constructed rate of production, or the collective synchronistic network we humans deserve? It is impossible to absolve our dependence on tools. It is possible to define what is obsolete. What we create is never nothing.
When Marx mentions technology, he is talking about the about the concrete, productive forces taken by the labour process in a given instance; http://totalassaultonculture.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/123/