Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by colordrops on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:01PM
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It seems that "tech" has come to be a colloquialism for "digital".
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Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by CamelCaseName on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:31PM
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It is not that surprising given that the most apparent technological advance in our lifetime has been the internet.
I would be curious to see what "technology" was a colloquialism for different periods in time. My suspicion is that it would refer to the most impactful and visible innovations of that time.
Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by jhbadger on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:42AM
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Well, the word comes from the ancient Greek "τέχνη" (techne) which meant "craft" -- it basically meant creating things in the real world rather than "ἐπιστήμη" (episteme) which meant abstract knowledge, which is what philosophers were after.
Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by _glass on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:55AM
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But the epistomology of a word does not determine its meaning. Otherwise the art versus craft debate would be difficult to apply with its original meanings.
Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by theandrewbailey on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:56AM
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Wasn't agriculture the first technology?
Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ...
by kgwgk on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:53AM
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I think “tech” is short for “information technology”, a term introduced almost six decades ago: https://hbr.org/1958/11/management-in-the-1980s