CS213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Techne, Prosthesis, Industrial Revolution
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Techne: skill, craft, know-how, art, the actual tool. Greek techne and latin ars: plato: proceeds by rational principles and rules, aristotle: Allow you to do more with less effort. There"s al(cid:449)ays a tradeoff, (e. g shoe(cid:448)elling- enjoying nature outside manually doing it, or being in a machine doing it and potentially digging too deep, not enjoying the benefits of manually doing it, or vice versa) 2 ways to think about these devices: normal. Usage 2: sociotechnical system of manufacture- when we make tools, we use tools to make another tool. Organizing people, into different kinds of functions to be more efficient. We (cid:374)e(cid:448)er e(cid:454)isted i(cid:374) a (cid:449)orld that did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e tech(cid:374)olog(cid:455) I(cid:374)dustrial re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) (cid:373)o(cid:448)es us to a group (cid:449)a(cid:455) of (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g at so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s set pace rather than private work at your own pace.
