Abstract
By most any measure of social or cultural prominence, academic philosophy does not matter in contemporary life. The influence of philosophy began to wane as the professionalization of philosophy began to gather steam around the turn of the century. Taking basic science as their model, philosophers hoped to better the human condition through fundamental research rather than participation in the public conversation. This project has failed, but institutional inertia keeps driving philosophy along the established lines. Philosophers contribute to the moral and cultural maintenance of society and are free, as they should be, to engage in unfettered intellectual exploration. Yet they leave unattended a largely neglected task that they are particularly equipped to undertake, the radical and normative examination of the material culture that has been shaped by modern technology and is about to be transformed once again by the vigor and ingenuity of recent technological developments.
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