Third Law: Technology comes in packages, big and small.
set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:
- All technological change is a trade-off.
- The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the
Postman’s Prophetic Provocations
people love to juxtapose "real" hardware innovation as separate from the fake economy software/computer innovation. but much of the advancements in this generation of hardware tech is downstream of computing and the improvement of various data and control planes eating the machine world
the first and foremost being the... See more
roonx.comThe first will be the one I have been talking about: that technologies, all technologies, are combinations. This simply means that individual technologies are constructed or put together—combined—from components or assemblies or subsystems at hand. The second will be that each component of technology is itself in miniature a technology. This sounds
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