Sixth Law: Technology is a very human activity—and so is the history of technology.
Sixth Law: Technology is a very human activity—and so is the history of technology.
To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
Maran Nelsonletterstoayoungtechnologist.com
For the foreseeable future, the ongoing technological explosion will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones; there won’t be a “last invention that man need ever make.” In one respect, this is reassuring, because, contrary to Good’s claim, human intelligence will never be “left far behind.” But, in the same way that w... See more
newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought. By understanding the reality of the people who came before us, we can see why we look at the world the way we do, and what our contribution is toward further progress. We can pinpoint where we come in, so to speak, in the longer development of Civilization, and that gi
... See moreJames Redfield • The Celestine Prophecy
The one thing technology doesn’t provide us with is a sense of how to make the best use of technology.