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> There are certain bodies of human knowledge and practice which aren't usually referred to as "technologies", and I think that leads us to underestimate their
by throw0101a 18d ago
> There are certain bodies of human knowledge and practice which aren't usually referred to as "technologies", and I think that leads us to underestimate their complexity and importance.
“Technology is the active human interface with the material world.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
- throw0101a 18d agoAnother quotation I ran across semi-recently: > Reputation is a technology. We solve a lot of problems in the economy by turning one-shot games, in which people literally take the money and run, and turn them into repeated games, in which people have an incentive to behave well in this period so that you will trust them next period, and so on, into the future. * Paul Krugman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_IYGeZLLhI&t=10m30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_IYGeZLLhI&t=10m30s