In the contemporary world, technology profoundly reshapes the horizons of what can be. Computation, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence extend the field of potentialities, opening new pathways for actualisation while constraining others through design, protocols, and algorithms.
Technology operates as a mediator of possibility. Algorithms define what is discoverable or actionable. Biotechnological interventions create new forms of life, pushing the boundaries of the biologically possible. Digital platforms orient attention, interaction, and social emergence, creating collective fields that shape both individual and collective actualisations.
Yet these extensions are not neutral. They structure relational fields, embedding priorities, biases, and affordances into the very space of becoming. Possibility is amplified, channelled, and sometimes restricted, showing that human and collective agency is always entangled with the tools and media that mediate it.
Understanding technological possibility is thus crucial for understanding the contemporary cosmos: it illuminates how the unfolding of potential is co-constructed with the instruments, infrastructures, and symbolic architectures humans create.
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