Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology"

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Ursula Le Guin

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technology is how a society copes with physical reality

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Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

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we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax

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ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?

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That's the neat thing about technologies. They're what we can learn to do.

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