From: BrettMan35@webtv.net (Brett Robertson) Date sent: Fri, 28 May 1999 03:03:00 -0500 (EST) To: virus@lucifer.com Subject: Re: Manifest Science (was: RE: virus: Cow) Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> Dan,
>
> How do you make a distinction between the "products" of technology and
> the driving force which creates the products?
>
> Isn't freedom a technology (for example)? What products does it create
> and how are these products "of a different sort"?
>
> I could also ask: "Isn't medicine a technology?". Though, by the first
> example, I would like to make the point that while the technology of
> medicine MAY be defined by the products, the example which freedom
> suggests may illustrate that a technology doesn't even HAVE to be
> product oriented (and from there we might further distinguish the
> product from the technology-- as in the medicine example [or the
> science example]... assuming that this distinction is meaningful at
> all).
>
Language is that with which people communicatively mediate their
relationships between themselves; technology is that with which
people manipulatively or perceptually madiate their relationships
with the material world. Freedom is not a technology; it is a
concept. Wheels, levers, wedges, computers, bombs, clothes,
microscopes, rockets, cars, etc. are examples of technology.
Technology is material and made.
> Brett Lane Robertson
> Indiana, USA
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