I dont know either of the 2. I do quicker to tell you how I see tech so you decide what suits best.
I think tech is what we humans do. We invent things, we dominate. We evolve, so on. I think this is the pipeline: Homo erectus > Homo faber > homo sapiens > homo narrativus > homo deus.
So when you advance in this pyramid, at some point you will be able to rewrite yourself. That makes you conclude the cycle. When A human will be able to stop his own code mid-execution and then rewrite his wetware, thats when we close the loop and we become recursive for real.
So whats tech in my view? It is a continual human becoming where we recursively extend human agency until theres no distinction between created systems and systems that simply exist on their own.
Which of the 2 ideas suits me best?