Think of it as the equivalent of a cold reboot of your computer. A soft reset is necessary when an application or system process becomes unresponsive or start behaving erratically. In my experience, soft resetting an iPhone solves most temporary software issues. A much more intrusive option is a hard reset, which wipes all data off the device. So far, I have only had to reset an iPhone hard once. If you hold them down at the same time for a few seconds, the screen of the iPhone will turn black.
At that point, once you release the buttons, the iPhone will erase its memory and turn itself off. If you keep holding the two buttons, you will see the Apple logo, indicating that the device is powering back up. I got my iPhone 7 Plus shortly after Apple released it, but until last week, I never had to reset it soft. During a recent trip to Rochester, NY, I experienced data connectivity issues, despite having a good LTE reception. I figured a good old two button soft reset would fix the problem.
So I pushed both the power and lock button at the same time and held them for a few seconds. Unfortunately, my iPhone didn’t restart, but instead, it took a screenshot. I tried a few times but without success. So I did some research and learned, that on the iPhone 7, Apple had changed the buttons you need to press to soft reset the device. The new way to soft reset an iPhone 7 is more convenient because you can now do it with one hand, as the two buttons are on opposite sides of the device. Sign for future blog updates! Opt out any time.
But the whole ensemble of means designed to permit human mastery of what were means and have now become milieu are techniques of the second degree, and nothing more. The second solution revolves about the effort to discover (or rediscover) a new end for human society in the technical age. The aims of technology, which were clear enough a century and a half ago, have gradually disappeared from view.
Comprehending that the proliferation of means brings about the disappearance of the ends, we have become preoccupied with rediscovering a purpose or a goal. Some optimists of good will assert that they have rediscovered a Humanism to which the technical movement is subordinated. The orientation of this Humanism may be Communist or non-Communist, but it hardly makes any difference. In both cases it is merely a pious hope with no chance whatsoever of influencing technical evolution.
The further we advance, the more the purpose of our techniques fades out of sight. Even things which not long ago seemed to be immediate objectives - rising living standards, hygiene, comfort - no longer seem to have that character, possibly because man finds the endless adaptation to new circumstances disagreeable.
In many cases, indeed, a higher technique obliges him to sacrifice comfort and hygienic amenities to the evolving technology with possesses a monopoly of the instruments necessary to satisfy them. But the optimistic technician is not a man to lose heart. If ends and goals are required, he will find them in a finality which can be imposed on technical evolution precisely because this finality can be technically established and calculated. It seems clear that there must be some common measure between the means and the ends subordinated to it.
The required solution, then, must be a technical inquiry into ends, and this alone can bring about a systematization of ends and means. The problem becomes that of analyzing individual and social requirements technically, of establishing, numerically and mechanistically, the constancy of human needs. It follows that a complete knowledge of ends is requisite for mastery of means.
But, as Jacques Aventur has demonstrated, such knowledge can only be technical knowledge. Alas, the panacea of merely theoretical humanism is as vain as any other. Aventur. Aventur's dictum must be extended to include man's psychology and sociology, since these have also been reduced to mathematical calculation. Technology cannot put up with intuitions and "literature." It must necessarily don mathematical vestments.
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