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The Nature of Technology
- Each technology exploits a natural phenomena thereby exposing a functionality to further human purpose
- Principal – the idea of how a phenomena is captured
- One technology builds on another (or a collection them) – recursion
- Components – components and practices
- functionality assumes modularity simplifies design
- Types of phenomena
- Physical – what goes on in the physical environment
- Behavioral – what goes on in a human brain
- Organization – the emergent dynamics when a group of human brains interact
- Science is the practice of probing Nature to identify phenomena through the use of technology
- Engineer is a process of solving the problem to create a solution by making technology work.
- Invention is mental association of problem with principal and technology
- A technology stack when required to perform at higher levels needs to be modified to get pass bottlenecks
- Internal replacement
- Structural deepening
- can become an issue. Example
- military organization
- legal system
- administrative system
- Mechanisms
- Lock-in – preventing easy migration to new technology
- adaptive stretch – adopting new technology to augment existing ones
- Opens the door for disruption
- Technology buildout tends to be concentrated in one country or region – concentration of talents (people with deep craft) and the forming of a culture
- who to talk to
- how to get something fixed
- what to ignore
- what theories / principals to look to
- An economy (how resources are exchanged) is the expression of its technology
- Economy is neurons, flesh and blood
- Technology is the skeletal structure
