a) One could imagine that the technological mindset might be totalizing. After all, we could argue that everything is machine-like. Humans are like machines, with interchangeable parts. Minds are like machines – computer programs.
b) Clearly technology is based on the rational self, rather than tradition. Technology brings the results of our rational decision-making. The technological world is the same as the rational world, insofar as rationality is defined as means-ends rationality. Technology is the very embodiment of that rationality
c) One might argue that technology is its own principle of legitimation. If we can build it, we should build it. You can't stop (technological) progress. Something is good inasmuch as it can be done.
d) The notion that technology is abstract is a little more difficult to imagine, but consider this: for most people, technology is so ubiquitous that it has become a force. People think in terms of technology as having a will, as affecting things in its own right. It is like using the term "society" in the phrase "Society believes. . .", or something like that. Its reification has become a kind of abstract existence. All particular examples of technology are manifestations of that general reification.
e) The same emancipatory conclusion that we drew with the discussion of science also applies here, for the result of science is usually technological. Emancipation comes through greater and greater control and prediction of the world.