Technology

The use of techniques to obtain mastery and dominate the natural world, bending it to our wills and making it fulfill all of our desires. The enlightenment’s wet dream:

For by them I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and in room of the speculative philosophy usually taught in the Schools, to discover a practical, by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that surround us, as distinctly as we know the various crafts of our artisans, we might also apply them in the same way to all the uses to which they are adapted, and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature – Descartes AT VI, 61–62

I work on technology, and I do a lot of it. I thought I would have a lot to say about it, especially because I like teaching. I work on some very complex and sometimes very low level things. The problem is that they are mostly internal, and of limited benefit to anyone else. Anything general enough is most likely covered by the answers you get from AI. Even still, I should be able to write something, but alas, I find that what I want to write about when I have a few free minutes is not technology. Perhaps I have burned out a bit on the perpetual promise and constant churn. I don’t know. Anyway, if you have read this far, apologies! If I do find some bit of my struggles possibly of use, I will post my findings.