TRP-thematic. Found at a philosophy blog

[Mark Kohut]

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The spell that today's rationalists and naturalists choose to cast upon themselves has its own special name: the Ionian Enchantment (coined by physicist Gerald Holton , and employed, without irony, by such prominent a figure as biologist E.O. Wilson, in his book "Consilience.") In Wilson's words, the Ionian Enchantment is "a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws." I don't relate this fact to belittle or diminish this particular spell, merely to observe that it is one. In more vernacular terms, the Ionian Enchantment is referred to as reductionism. As its defenders and practitioners are quick to point out, reductionism works--if by "works" we mean that our airliners go from place to place without incident, with enough reliability to make it a worthwhile endeavor.

But this is a definition that is built into the question. Within it is embedded the supposition that technology makes our lives better. How do we know? Because it manifestly makes our lives "better," where "better" is defined as the thing that technology does.