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Would you say the 99.99% reduction in travel time is “brilliant”? Me, I like sight seeing. A bicycle ride sounds brilliant. Even though it is much slower.
by ukj 5y ago
Would you say the 99.99% reduction in travel time is “brilliant”?
Me, I like sight seeing. A bicycle ride sounds brilliant. Even though it is much slower.
- listenallyall 5y agoYes, I would absolutely state that there are dozens, perhaps hundreds or thousands, of brilliant innovations, technologies and engineering feats that make it possible for a 757 to exist, and fly so safely, routinely and inexpensively that the general public takes it entirely for granted.
- ukj 5y agoI’ll try make the point one last time then let you be. “Brilliance” is a human attitude towards technology. It is not an intrinsic property of technology.
- listenallyall 5y agoI agree that the word brilliant is an adjective that humans can choose to use or not use to describe a particular technology. Your initial statement was that making that decision is always due to politics, as opposed to a person's genuine opinion... or perhaps implying that people simply don't have the ability to evaluate something independently.
- ukj 5y agoBecause brilliance is about the people not about the technology it is political by definition