tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post8120863316185251309..comments2023-05-09T05:34:51.555-04:00Comments on the Garden of Forking Paths: Some Questions Concerning TechnologyZach VanderVeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02442507412891534071noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post-64417727660338556342019-11-21T03:00:55.484-05:002019-11-21T03:00:55.484-05:00Most of the time I don’t make comments on websites...Most of the time I don’t make comments on websites, but I'd like to say that this article really forced me to do so. Really nice post! <a href="https://whyandhow.net/" rel="nofollow">https://whyandhow.net/</a><br />seoagencyTOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14643922278817907734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post-70199100022852764822019-09-26T02:54:22.527-04:002019-09-26T02:54:22.527-04:00Took me duration to gate all the clarification, ho...Took me duration to gate all the clarification, however I in reality enjoyed the article. It proved to be Very yielding to me and i'm determined to all the commenters here! Its always available via now you cannot unmarried-handedly be knowledgeable, but with entertained! <a href="https://ello.co/boltposts/post/hkew5kt3b33h0hvd-q7tgg" rel="nofollow">Facial Treatment</a>SkOfficalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967236366538526605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post-42381680111062310932011-11-19T07:56:34.199-05:002011-11-19T07:56:34.199-05:00It obviously takes skill to bring technology to be...It obviously takes skill to bring technology to bear on useful problem domains, since you have to know the technology and the problem domain. But it is disheartening that this happens so infrequently that people who do it, like Steve Jobs, are considered geniuses. Does it really take genius to combine good design (or anything else) with technology? <br /><br />I wonder if it just takes a shift in the ways technology companies are run. Take Google Docs for instance. They basically just took MS Word and put it on the cloud. They could have revolutionized the way we work collaboratively. Are we too scared to think big? Is it too risky in today's market? It seems like the time is ripe...Zach VanderVeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442507412891534071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post-1654523282922033432011-11-17T15:11:43.621-05:002011-11-17T15:11:43.621-05:00Having spent time developing software at a company...Having spent time developing software at a company that was in a decidedly non-technical industry, and working as an IT consultant, I have seen both the terror and the blinding adoration that technology evokes in people.<br /><br />Even though my job depends on "technology", I have found that I almost always much prefer a simpler, non-technical solution to problems if it is at all possible. A favorite saying of mine is "Technology won't fix mistakes, it will only cause them to happen faster."<br /><br />I believe that society has taken a much more (I struggle with the words here) "scientific" approach to everything. It is sterile, focused on, as you mentioned, a means-ends approach to everything. We seem to have lost the idea that there is more to life than reducing everything down to its simplest forms, teasing out numbers and data to determine the optimal, most efficient methods of doing everything in our lives.<br /><br />"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."<br />- Albert EinsteinScout7https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719913257786053421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545081472093386800.post-53594813785370087722011-11-14T21:13:50.236-05:002011-11-14T21:13:50.236-05:00Great post, Zach. You do a great job of bringing o...Great post, Zach. You do a great job of bringing out the tension in Heidegger's essay, and I like the way you talk about his criticism of technology as reductive of the four sorts of causes to a single mode of causality. I always saw the great tension in this essay (and I think it's Heidegger's best piece of philosophy) as between technology as a natural or normal way of humans to relate to the world and contemporary conceptions of technology as super-human or post-human. In other words, as soon as we begin to theorize technology as something outside of us--either as something that might save us or as something that might destroy us--we have already lost an intelligent and responsible relation to technology. Technology is always a techne--a practice of relating to the world. Its appearing as otherworldly is a sign of our of own weltlos...<br /><br />Anyways, all that is probably too complex. You put it straighter.Jeff Edmondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840746835757479590noreply@blogger.com