"Technology is the knack of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it."
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There are some alien things buried in poly math and strange mult etudes ... if a person would extend themselves so ... to get beyond themselves!
Few catch the information buried in multitudes ... due to word curtailment ... there that's shaved down! Precis ... not pres Ci'n ...
Few catch the information buried in multitudes ... due to word curtailment ... there that's shaved down! Precis ... not pres Ci'n ...
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I think there's a disconnect in how people understand the word "technology". "Technology" is not about computers and networks, though that is how we often use the word today. Those are actually "information technology." "Technology" itself refers to any tool humans create from the first stone hand axe to iPhones and spacecraft.
So I might agree with him for some modern information technologies like social media. But technology can also be a way of enhancing our experience of the world. I don't think stone tools and controlling fire were about "arranging the world so we don't have to experience it". They ensured our survival and ability to experience the world, perhaps even contributed to our evolution (e.g. making tools enhanced intelligence and it's been suggested that being able to cook meat so we could eat it safely helped with brain development in early hominins).
And I would suggest that even information technology can enhance our experience of the world when used properly. It's been a huge help in getting minorities in isolated communities (say LGBTQ in conservative parts of rural North America) in touch with their broader communities, just to give one example.
And what about microscopes and telescopes, that have extended our senses and experiences to things unseeable before?
That is too simplistic a statement and I am not sure it even uses "technology" correctly.
So I might agree with him for some modern information technologies like social media. But technology can also be a way of enhancing our experience of the world. I don't think stone tools and controlling fire were about "arranging the world so we don't have to experience it". They ensured our survival and ability to experience the world, perhaps even contributed to our evolution (e.g. making tools enhanced intelligence and it's been suggested that being able to cook meat so we could eat it safely helped with brain development in early hominins).
And I would suggest that even information technology can enhance our experience of the world when used properly. It's been a huge help in getting minorities in isolated communities (say LGBTQ in conservative parts of rural North America) in touch with their broader communities, just to give one example.
And what about microscopes and telescopes, that have extended our senses and experiences to things unseeable before?
That is too simplistic a statement and I am not sure it even uses "technology" correctly.
Informational stuff is hard to take for those contrary to intelligence in any form! Scientifically speaking it is about observing and not fusing well with blind fey-th! There is this hardening like in sclerosis ... resisting penetrating thought ... dark matter? May be because of the shells --- Botticelli?