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Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ... by CamelCaseName on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:31PM (#15087175)
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.

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Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ... by jhbadger on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:42AM (#15089243)
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.
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Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ... by _glass on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:55AM (#15089306)
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.
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Re:Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to ... by theandrewbailey on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:56AM (#15089318)
Wasn't agriculture the first technology?
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