Oh for crying out loud.
Language is technology, clothing is technology, vegetables are technology, houses are technology.
The author is talking about people usurping modernity, not stretching the definition of technology to the point of absurdity.
Re:The Coming Anti-Tech Counterculture
by oconnore on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:25PM
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How is using the word technology to describe the GPS network and smart phones absurd? You are the only one here talking about vegetables.
Modernity is not Facebook. Facebook is pop culture, and we're already aware of the anti-pop-culture movement: they're called hipsters.
Hipsters are SO into Facebook. And even _more_ into Instagram. They define pop culture by positioning themselves against a "phantom" pop culture that is even more pop.
> Language is technology, clothing is technology, vegetables are technology, houses are technology.
That argument can be made, but not convincingly. Instead, why not define "technology" as something man-made that most people find incomprehensible?
It's quite possible that smart phones, televisions, and kindles don't make your life any better. But MRI machines, efficient vehicles, green energy, plastic money, RFID toll booths, the GPS satellite constellation, and the internet probably do. Being anti technology means that you resist things that would improve your life for no other reason than that they are new. It's fine to use old things, as long as you keep an open mind.