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by on January 11, 2024 at 1:24 pm
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elwenyere:

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe... ALT

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

Full text here (it is not a long read)

Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about “Techonolgy”

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