The Nature of Technology
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but domains are more than the sum of their individual technologies. they are coherent wholes, families of devices, methods, and practices, whose coming into being and development have a character that differs from that of individual technologies. they are not invented; they emerged, crystallizing around a set of phenomena or a novel enabling technology, and building organically from these."
Sayfa 145 - 8: revolutions and redomainingKitabı okudu
technology is "the collection of mechanical arts that are available to a culture to make its economy and society function."
Sayfa 27 - 2: combination and structureKitabı okudu
as they sense and react to their environment, as they become self-assembling, self-configuring, self-healing, and "cognitive", they more and more resemble living organisms. the more sophisticated and "high-tech" technologies become, the more they become biological. we are beginning to appreciate that technologies is as much metabolism as mechanism.
there is a symmetric side to this. as biology is better understood, we are steadily seeing it as more mechanism.
conceptually at least, biology is becoming technology. and physically, technology is becoming biology."
Sayfa 208 - 11: where do we stand with this creation of ours?Kitabı okudu
technology is auto-poietic ("self-creating," or "self-bringing-forth," in greek."
Sayfa 170 - 9: the mechanism of evolutionKitabı okudu
it is this way that technology creates itself out of itself. it builds itself piece by pieces from the collective of existing technologies."
Sayfa 168 - 9: the mechanism of evolutionKitabı okudu
if we include all these "arrangements" in the collective of technology, we begin to see the economy not as container for its technologies, but as something constructed from its technologies.
the economy is an expression of its technologies."
Sayfa 193 - 10: the economy evolving as its technologies evolveKitabı okudu