= techne’ + logos
Techne’ = practical knowledge of how the world about us works, in some specific way, and how we can take the world about us as we find it, in that specific way, and change it to be more a way we choose to make it, in that specific way
logos = words, and language for talking to share experience, inquiry, insight, expectations, intentions and emotions
Technology = words and language for talking about practical knowledge of how the world about us works, and how we can change the way the world works, to make it work more a way we choose to make it.
Technology is the Promethean gift of Fire: our human power to change the natural world
stolen by the Titan in defiance of the Olympian
It is also the Biblical curse of toil, as punishment of Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,
in defiance of God’s command, to not do that.
It is our uniquely human way of being, together, and apart, in personal and private worlds for living our own best lives, as best we can under the circumstances then prevailing, personally and privately that we each curate for ourselves, personally and privately, out of the world that we make together, socially and publicly, out of the world of Nature into which we each and all are born, that we do not make, nut upon which we all depend for our own personal, individual and shared, social ongoingness.
Technology is essentially social.
We, as humans, are essentially socialists.
It takes a concentration of time, effort and expertise to master knowledge of how the world about us works, in its various and diverse specific ways, and to apply that mastery to the work [the toil of tilling the soil] of taking the world about us as we find it, in some specific way, and changing it, in that specific way, to make it be more a way we choose to make it, in that specific way.
Such application of mastery produces an abundance of artifacts of that technology, in surplus to what we ourselves can use in making our own personal and private worlds, in which to live our own best lives, as best we can under the circumstances then prevailing.
That surplus in abundance can be shared with others, in exchange for the surpluses that they produce through their application of their mastery of other and different knowledge.
In this way, humanity creates our economy, as a mutual aid society for sharing an abundance of technology solutions to the everyday problems of everyday people, each living our own best lives as best we can under the circumstances then prevailing, everyday, through enterprise for creating an abundance of the artifacts of our technologies, in surplus for sharing through exchange.
Exchange requires trust.
Money is a token that we can trust, a legal instrument that we essentially social and socialist humans use to effect exchanges between people separated by distances of time, place and social connection that create obstacles to personal trust: you do not have to trust the other person, if you can trust their money.
Money is also the social energy that society uses to direct our individual insights and initiative towards some activities (“you can make good money doing that” and away from others “there is no money to be made in that”).
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