Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:01:52 -0700
From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcwilk-AT-dreamgate.com>
Subject: Re: your opinion


Just a note on this:

At 11:32 AM 8/18/01 -0300, you wrote:
>Hi there. My name is Anthony and im interested on any opinion you have
>about how technology affects the acquistion of knowledge, helping or
>limiting it.
>
>i will appreciate a lot if someone can send me a few words about this issue.
>
>thankyou ....


    If we see technology as any extension used to achieve an ends, then the 
jaw, the eye, the expanded brain all become technology.  If we keep going, 
then writing and text become technologies, ideas and dreams become 
technologies. Perspectives are technology.  In this sense, all knowledge is 
technology.
   An anthropologist told me that language accounts for most the increase 
of the forebrain size and hence we now have to give birth to children 
before they can take care of themselves. That is, nurture has over-run 
nature. Nature, even gravity on a large scale, may be seen as a local 
habit.  Anyway, we now produce ourselves in a way that nature cannot 
sustain, we are, even at birth, in need of society and technology.

++ Richard

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