Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Technology, Literature, Scientists, and Engineers Message-ID: <500@rtech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 05:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.500 Posted: Thu Jun 20 05:13:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:26:48 EDT References: <1103@uwmacc.UUCP> <370016@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 20 > >/* mac@uvacs.UUCP / 6:29 pm Jun 13, 1985 */ > > > The term _technique_, as I use it, does not mean machines, > > technology, or this or that procedure for attaining an end. > > In our technological society, _technique is the totality of > > methods rationally arrived at and having absolute > > efficiency_ (for a given stage of development) in _every_ > > field of human activity. Its characteristics are new; the > > technique of the present has no common measure with that of > > the past. > > Huh? What does this mean? It means that the Emperor is *too* wearing clothes. :-) -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff