First Design Purpose is the beginning and ending reality; That there is an apparent evolution to it's teleological process is an observation, and as such the apparent end purpose changes as further points of information come to light.<p>To highlight this point, and, to gather relevant insight from the article, one only needs to understand what technology's First Design Purpose was/is: 'To make our life better', and, the author makes this point very clear, to the extend that technology makes our life better, to the end technology will survive (in a equitable fashion that is).<p>Throughout history, all inequities of all stripes have been countered by nature, if by none other than the ingrained natural will of humans to survive in a equitable fashion with their peers as a First Purpose.<p>Without this First Design Purpose of humans to survive, in an equitable fashion, the human species would self-annihilate, and since annihilation serves no good purpose, the brutal force of nature is set loose to decisively deal with the inequities.