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Re:What a Year at a Mechanic Shop Taught Me About Process (2... by jccooper on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:39PM (#21555145)
When people say they work in "technology" they're really shortening it from "high technology" (or perhaps "technology development".) This makes it a useful distinction; if you take it literally, everyone's working in technology one way or the other.
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Re:What a Year at a Mechanic Shop Taught Me About Process (2... by dragonwriter on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:48PM (#21555198)
> When people say they work in "technology" they're really shortening it from "high technology" (or perhaps "technology development".)

I think what they really mean is “computing”, and mostly specifically “software”; I rarely see any other industry or type of work, no matter how high tech and whether or not the work being done is tech development, referred to as “technology” without some other modifier.

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