To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist

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If you go to the Wikipedia entry for "Technologist" today, you'll find it unwritten. Nobody, thus far, has attempted to explain what a "technologist" is on the Internet's canonical encyclopedia. As a result, the page can only point the reader to a list of highly specific and mechanical job titles, peddling entries on "cardiovascular technologist" and "architectural technologist" rather than providing a unified overview of what these jobs have in common. What it means to be a "technologist" is similarly ill-defined in the general popular conception. "Technologist" implies little other than a narrow sense of "technical": knowing how to construct and/or program a machine. Not only this, the frequent implication is that machines are all a technologist cares about, that technologists are nerdy men who think only in code and prefer not to be bothered with the human constraints and messiness of the world. In turn, the perceived coldness of the machine is projected onto its maker; many of us d

To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist Letters to a Young Technologist About → To be a Technologist is to be Human If you go to the Wikipedia entry for "Technologist" today, you'll find it unwritten. Nobody, thus far, has attempted to explain what a "technologist" is on the Internet's canonical encyclopedia. As a result, the page can only point the reader to a list of highly specific and mechanical job titles, peddling entries on "cardiovascular technologist" and "architectural technologist" rather than providing a unified overview of what these jobs have in comm

To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist

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