Technology Uber Alles

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, mattd wrote:

> Technology is the sum of mediations between us and the natural world and 
> the sum of those separations mediating us from each other.

Technology is science applied with a purpose.

Science is understanding an 'event' in the abstract, usually including or
requiring a mathematical expression. It's most useful when it is
predictive, but there are categorical sciences as well.

Operations Research is about how to string the pieces together in a
workable system, with as little waste as possible.

Economics is how to pay for it.


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