Technology Uber Alles
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Dec 31 21:46:33 PST 2001
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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