“To aim knowledge at power over nature, and to utilize power over nature for the improvement of the human lot” is how German philosopher Hans Jonas defined in the late 1970s what is known as the “Baconian Program” (Jonas, 1984, p. 140). A decade and a half later, German philosopher of science Gernot Böhme indicated that Bacon’s program “organizes science into an enterprise of inventions and institutionalizes it socially in such a way that its inventions are implemented for the benefit of man.” In his view, Bacon’s “invention of a method to make inventions” was an “epoch-making change for the system of human knowledge” that human conditions could be improved “primarily through the development of science and technology” (Böhme, 1992, pp. 2–3).