Post AwfiLjLJrhyovmHIn2 by kevinrns@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwfUKU87Xg926KcHUe by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
       2025-07-30T16:53:29Z
       
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       @beemoh Not sure, but there is an aphorism (which I will paraphrase) which is something like...Technology starts as magic, then become normal, and then becomes invisible....
       
 (DIR) Post #AwfUKVEBScaZVQSdaC by foldworks@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-07-30T19:02:33Z
       
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       @ChrisMayLA6 @beemoh I think 'technology' is still a useful word, but needs nuance to distinguish 'Big Tech', say, from humane and social use of technology.As to our relationship to technology, Douglas Adams wrote:"I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." https://archive.org/details/salmonofdoubthit0000adam_s5i4/page/94/mode/2up?q=%22reactions+to+technologies%22 (The salmon of doubt, 2002)#technology
       
 (DIR) Post #AwffaeDmtCSfWoB0vg by h4890@liberdon.com
       2025-07-30T21:13:49Z
       
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       @foldworks @ChrisMayLA6 @beemoh Brilliant!
       
 (DIR) Post #AwfiLjLJrhyovmHIn2 by kevinrns@mstdn.social
       2025-07-30T21:02:52Z
       
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       @foldworks @ChrisMayLA6 @beemoh Sounds like a play down of the risk of tech bro tech based tech fascism, which is covering our hands and mouths across the world. UK check out VPN stories, then US obviously - duh. Tech bro billionaire tech fascism is a thing, is the big thing, is what's happening.Be warned, feel warned, get ready.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwfiLkVzVW6uZAHL3w by foldworks@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-07-30T21:43:54Z
       
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       @kevinrns @ChrisMayLA6 @beemoh  I don't think anyone is downplaying the risks (or dark sides) of technology, especially on fedi where I found #enshittification and #TESCREALI use a wide-ranging definition of technology, not just high technology: writing, clothing, monetary systems, hand washing with soap, etc.As Ivan #illich  Marshall #McLuhan and others have noted: we shape our tools, and our tools shape us. We need to be aware of who's doing what, why, and--most importantly--who's benefitting. For example, the litany of misuses of technology by @pluralistic  https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/efficiency-washing/#technology