To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist

Any characterization of technology should adequately acknowledge its inherently goal-driven nature. A simple definition is that technology is tools, processes or systems that make something easier. In other words, technology is a reusable, low-resistance path to achieve some end or goal. Thus, by materializing this path, technological creation give... See more

But what if humans – the creators of both technology and art – were even more elevated creations than both? What if we were inimitable, indispensable? Instead of trying to become super-effective machines like the ones we've created, what if we recognised our nature as being an infinitely nuanced emergent system, a sublime work of art and, perhaps,

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