Tech words

Friday December 2, 2005 - 11:33PM EDT

The common definition of the word technology is crappy. It either refers to electronics or something related to commercial or industrial objectives. The anthropological definition is the most acceptable to me, though I think it is still restrictive. Technology to me I guess is the tangible representation of ideas. Everything in our world is technology. Clothing, utensils, paper, razors, the wheel. Electricity is not technology in itself. The idea of electricity isn't technology. It is the use of electricity in all its various ways and with its various devices that is technology. The wire that moves electrons along a distance is technology. Not electricity in itself. Electricity always existed. Technology is the tangible representation of the way we put our ideas into use. To me that is technology. It is not just electronics. So there is no need to fear technology. We've had it since we started killing buffalo with sharp rocks.