Ontological implications

13. Tools/Technologies/artifacts transform reality

• Tools are occasions for redefinition of goals and meanings.
• Artifacts are interfaces between\actors and environments.
• Artifacts embody the principles and
  practices of a given culture.
• Artifacts enable and constrain.
• Artifacts have politics and are involved in struggles for socioeconomic control.
• Artifacts modify practices, abilities, competencies, ways of thinking.

*Art's Pretty Geeky, even historically speaking

*Tools for thought/writing

Question

Is there a "hidden" technology in the current digital environment that may well be unnoted in a thousand years, but which underlies the dramatic changes in this computerized age?

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