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While true that technology is either tech for tech's sake, or tech for something else's stake, I think the nchuhoai meant that technology is something much more than a means to an end, especially money. It's applied mathematics that allows us to go deeper into analysis, gain deeper insights, and better control the variables and mechanisms invovled with it. See medicine, engineering, science, art, education, government, etc. As a discipline though, I find it's associated with information, and can thus be 'in it' for itself in regards to practices, research, theory, and application. So I think it's both. Technology is an odd thing when you think about it. I think that trying to classify it doesn't really matter though, as technology 'is', so we should focus on using it to make other things, and itself, better. I'm not against philosophical discussions though. |