Technology as Process (Maggie Appleton)

Hope in Source

Is technology just of chips and gadgets? Maggie Appleton joins Henry again in a 2-part chat to discuss how tech isn't such a static thing, building off of Mcluhan's thought of media and Dan Wang's article, "How Technology Grows". We cover how tech itself contains it's own process knowledge involving how it is used, built, and maintained as well as going into digital immortality and the protestant work ethic, and chat about how our cultures are intertwined with tech. Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/process.

Part 1: https://hopeinsource.com/embodied
Previously: https://hopeinsource.com/metaphor, https://hopeinsource.com/gift
Maggie: https://twitter.com/Mappletons
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Sections:

• [00:00] Technology is Dynamic
• [01:33] Technology as Tools, Instructions, Process
• [03:50] You can't hide the age of physical objects
• [05:44] Dates on websites
• [09:05] Immortality: Digital and Physical
• [10:20] The right to be forgotten
• [12:11] Creating a Disembodied God
• [15:14] The Denial of Death
• [16:43] Protestant Work Ethic
• [19:50] Capitalist cosmology and self-help
• [21:58] Doing the One to Many for the One to One
• [25:03] Over-participation
• [27:57] Platform Support
• [30:21] Process Knowledge takes time

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