{"id":509,"date":"2009-09-16T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T07:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=509"},"modified":"2009-09-16T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T16:43:54","slug":"technology-is-by-tracy-gidinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/16\/technology-is-by-tracy-gidinski\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology is&#8230;by Tracy Gidinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To continue from my &#8220;Text Is&#8221; post, this quotation from Ayn Rand summarizes my thoughts on what technology is fairly well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Technology is an applied science, i.e., it translates the discoveries of theoretical science into practical application to man\u2019s life. As such, technology is not the first step in the development of a given body of knowledge, but the last; it is not the most difficult step, but it is the ultimate step, the implicit purpose, of man\u2019s quest for knowledge.\u00a0 (Ayn Rand. Apollo 11. <em>The Objectivist<\/em>, Sept. 1969, 9.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rand describes technology as the &#8220;ultimate step&#8221; in the quest for knoweledge, yet new technologies implicitly create the ability for future technologies.\u00a0 In relation to text, then, technology is its leading edge &#8211; technology paves the way for new forms of text, which leads to new forms of thinking, on a continual &#8220;quest for knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or is it?\u00a0 Instead of a leading edge, do text and technology work together as a double-edged sword?\u00a0 Is text the leading edge for technology in the same way that technology is the leading edge for text?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue from my &#8220;Text Is&#8221; post, this quotation from Ayn Rand summarizes my thoughts on what technology is fairly well: Technology is an applied science, i.e., it translates the discoveries of theoretical science into practical application to man\u2019s life. As such, technology is not the first step in the development of a given body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}