Post #869340
2026-03-29 18:14 UTC
Replies (4)
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@Dataless@dice.camp 2026-03-29 18:16
@ephemeral Douglas Adams said that technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn’t work properly yet. He said that a chair isn’t technology because we know how to make one.
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@haverholm@radikal.social 2026-03-29 19:38
@ephemeral I'd say a confluence of technologies — written language, printing, binding — that combined create a storage medium for meaning?
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@tfb@functional.cafe 2026-03-29 19:38
@ephemeral As someone who's done everything from setting physical type, developing plates, offset printing, and cutting and binding books, I'd say absolutely
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@mousebot@todon.nl 2026-03-31 12:07
@ephemeral is it a trick question? if not, it absolutely is. a sharpened flint stone is too, no? both are part of the constructed human apparatus, and depended on as such. and i'm now asking the question backwards: how could it not be? (unless we define "technology" to mean "new technology".)