Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance suggests an approach to reforming technology that Borgmann finds both compelling and disturbingly flawed (Borgmann, 160-1). Pirsig, Borgmann thinks, is arguing for a reform of technology "from within" by emphasizing the possibility of a caring, responsible, and engaged relationship with technological objects such as motorcycles. Pirsig thinks that such a relationship with technology brings with it the awareness that "The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in a flower." Why is Borgmann unsatisfied with Pirsig's conclusion? Your replies can take the form of either comments or new posts.
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