[Air-L] Your Opinion

[jeremy hunsinger]

True, but there in a 747 we are talking about something a bit more  
like a complex system of technologies, much like say the hoover damn  
than the the canonical aristotelian example which is similar  
though.... it is captaining a ship, which is a complex system, and  
takes years of mentorship, which is why i later talked about this in  
terms of that apprenticeship model of knowledge acquisition.

but in the end i was talking about the skills necessary to achieve  
literacy more than the literacy in this post and the practicing/ 
development of those skills will likely be performed in a social  
context as an individual....

probably should also state that i generally mean a bit more than  
objects when i refer to technology, i tend to mean more than the  
echnics as the technology, so technology includes is all the social,  
cultural, ideological, systems that exist within the ecological arena  
that situates the technology in its performative and other  
contexts.    that is closer i think to the 'techne' 'logos' meaning of  
technology than perhaps the more modern object without context.

anyway, i'm still supposed to be writing about knowledge and commodity  
forms in the information society and am still avoiding it.


On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Scott Swigart wrote:

> " what we need for the future, we need people who have the skills
>> to achieve literacy on their own on any given new technology or old
>> technology they are confronted with"
>
> Not all technology is created equal.  This assumes that the  
> technology is
> designed to be usable, discoverable, and intuitive.   Some of the most
> academically challenged people figured out how to use their iPhones  
> just
> fine.  The designers of the 747, on the other hand, had no  
> requirement that
> pilots simply be able to figure it out on their own.
> d