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I don't think software is capitalist or communist is it? Software is like steam-engines. Like you say it eliminates work, like steam-engines did. Software is j
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
I don't think software is capitalist or communist is it? Software is like steam-engines. Like you say it eliminates work, like steam-engines did.
Software is just a technology, which can be used for good and bad, like most things.
- namaria 4y agoTo nitpick, steam engine and software are products of technique. Technology is the exercise of understanding technique, i.e. this conversation is about technology. But I think we impoverish our language by calling everything related to technical development 'technology'.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoGood point about terminology. But then what makes software special is that you can also encode "techniques" in it. Thus the exercise of trying to understand a program is also "technology"? :-)
- namaria 4y agoSure and biology is just wet physics. Vocabulary is not about set theory, it's about nuance.