Tim Bouma on Nostr: The big insight I learned from Marshall McLuhan is that technology is all about ...
The big insight I learned from Marshall McLuhan is that technology is all about extending your own self.
A stone is not technology, but throwing a stone is technology. Anything that can be combined with latent or active intention, is technology.
As intention is not neutral, technology is not neutral.
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