Writer's Block: Pros and Cons

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The problem with questions about 'technology' is that they tend to define 'technology' both imprecisely and far too narrowly. Speech, fire, cloth and writing are all technologies which revolutionized human life when they were developed -- would any of the inevitable self-professed haters of technology want to be rid of those?

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[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you on the definition problem!!! On the other hand I suppose we've always done it - such as with "the arts". We seem to handily forget that today's tried and true is yesterdays dangerously modern and tomorrows tired and out of date, or if we're lucky classic. :)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the arts, and a whole bunch of technologies I'd not want to lose, from then lyre and panpipes to the flute and harp and harpsichord and piano and theremin and hammered dulcimer and tinwhistle and ocarina and pitch pipe and bassoon and digital recording ... paints (oil and tempera abd acryluc and watercolor, oh my) and brushes and stretched canvas ... fired ceramics, the potter's wheel ...