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Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine—and so on and on. … Technology is the active human interface with the material world. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. (Alan Watts)

Martin Fowler on an intersection between ethics and technology: https://martinfowler.com/articles/2021-responsible-tech-playbook.html

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  • universal basic income

    …income. UBI has gained popularity in response to fears that [[technology]] will make increasing numbers of jobs obsolete, and those who…

  • maintenance

    …Bacigalupi) There is a class component here as well. Maintaining technology is often done by poorly-paid blue-collar workers, while…