{"id":456,"date":"2009-09-15T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:54:37","slug":"what-is-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/what-is-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"What is technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of technology, I&#8217;m reminded of the many years I worked as a technical writer learning about and documenting many telecommunications&#8217; technologies: Creating conceptual and procedural information to accompany complex telecommunications equipment. I&#8217;m also reminded of the fact that technology speaks to me as being something that&#8217;s supposed to make our lives easier, better, and is very important. Its importance is described by Postman: &#8221; Technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines freedom, truth, intelligence, fact, wisdom, memory, history, all the words we live by. (Postman, 1992 pp.8-9)<\/p>\n<p>Postman, N (1992). <em>Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology.<\/em> New York:Vintage Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of technology, I&#8217;m reminded of the many years I worked as a technical writer learning about and documenting many telecommunications&#8217; technologies: Creating conceptual and procedural information to accompany complex telecommunications equipment. I&#8217;m also reminded of the fact that technology speaks to me as being something that&#8217;s supposed to make our lives easier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6808],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}