Writer's Block: Pros and Cons
Mar. 5th, 2012 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I don't know, why don't you ask Thag. Who's Thag? She was that woman who made the first wheel and axle to help her move an item too heavy to carry or drag. or Plink. You remember Plink, he figured out that a sharpened wedge of stone could be attached to a stick and the stick thrown to kill an animal from a distance.
Or you could ask Archemedies. Or Guttenburg. Or Eli Whitney.
I study life in the Internet Age for a living and I can say with no small amount of confidence that all technology is simply something that provides a mechanical or communicative advantage (and sometimes both), nothing more, nothing less.
It's what we choose to do with that advantage that makes the world better or worse.
(Who the hell comes up with these bullshit questions. They've never used any of mine).
I don't know, why don't you ask Thag. Who's Thag? She was that woman who made the first wheel and axle to help her move an item too heavy to carry or drag. or Plink. You remember Plink, he figured out that a sharpened wedge of stone could be attached to a stick and the stick thrown to kill an animal from a distance.
Or you could ask Archemedies. Or Guttenburg. Or Eli Whitney.
I study life in the Internet Age for a living and I can say with no small amount of confidence that all technology is simply something that provides a mechanical or communicative advantage (and sometimes both), nothing more, nothing less.
It's what we choose to do with that advantage that makes the world better or worse.
(Who the hell comes up with these bullshit questions. They've never used any of mine).
