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Kernel | What is Technology?

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As technologists, our work involves acts of immense power, and society both admires and fears these acts. This power is a rec...

Kernel | What is Technology? Issue 1 nonfiction What is Technology? written by Saffron Huang As technologists, our work involves acts of immense power, and society both admires and fears these acts. This power is a recent phenomenon. In ancient times, those who made technology were devalued as laborers: they were lowly potters and bronze-smiths, not space billionaires. Plato believed in the inferiority of practical craftsmen compared to philosophers, since they deal with the corrupt material world rather than the pure plane of Being and Ideas (Cuomo, 2007). But for the last two centuries techn

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