STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brass Knuckles, Richard Lewontin, User Interface
23 Feb 2016
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Sts 200 lecture 5- january 19 th 2016. This lecture is based on the reading by george grant. What is technology: various conceptions, simple leverage: technology is a way to achieve a change. By this definition, yes, but really we don"t normally view our bodies as technology: augmentation: technology is a tool to help us augment our abilities to change. This normally means tools, ie things not integral to the organism"s functioning. This definition includes non-human intelligence: technic: material products of human making or fabrication. - Referred to as the clock , or the computer : techniques: actions or know-how (know-how is different to knowledge, in that it"s applicable) necessary to make the tools, or use the tools. The complex of knowledge, methods, materials, and, if applicable, constituent parts (which are themselves technics), used in making (or using) a certain kind of technic. -ibid.
