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To nitpick, steam engine and software are products of technique. Technology is the exercise of understanding technique, i.e. this conversation is about technolo
by namaria 4y ago
To 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.