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> But people don't talk about ancient inventions as "technology", outside of a historical context. When we call something technology, we generally mean somethin
by waheoo 6y ago
> But people don't talk about ancient inventions as "technology", outside of a historical context. When we call something technology, we generally mean something invented recently
This is rediculous, the whole articles schtick is based on an inline redefining of the word its about.
Well I guess the sky isn't blue anymore because the word blue doesn't mean blue anymore, it means red.
I dunno about you all, but when I talk about technology, I am referring to the accepted definition meaning. Not "recent tech", although a lot of contexts this can be assumed.
But nobody out there is assuming you mean recent tech when you're talking about ancient Egyptian technology.
Words mean things, so does context, stop trying to redefine the meaning of words all the time, it's tiring, and we usually have a word for what you want to convey already.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoDo you refer to cars, microwaves, refrigerators or light bulbs as "tech"?
- Doxin 6y agoyes.
- davidivadavid 6y agoThey're undoubtedly technologies, but I don't think that in practice people would call those industries part of "tech". The whole "tech" label needs to die as it's overstayed its welcome and now just funnels engineers towards narrower and narrower segments of the economy where the benefits are less and less clear. If you estimate the "tech-iness" of a domain by the depth of the tech tree or the "height" of the leaves people are working on, most "tech" work these days is working on CRUD apps based on a 20-ish (?) year old paradigm. It's hardly cutting edge, and probably isn't the most deserving of the label.
- waheoo 6y agoHomeware companies refer to their technology divisions all the time. What you're calling "tech" the rest of the world calls "I.T."
- davidivadavid 6y agoI wouldn't mind that re-labeling.
- Doxin 6y ago"tech" is short for technology.[1] So yes, any technology is tech. Of course you might want to define tech differently in which case it might be helpful if you're explicit in what you understand "tech" to be. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tech https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tech