Technology as arbitrage

Modern science strives to be objective, i.e. anti-anthropocentric. Modern business strives to be anthropocentric. Technology is both anti- and anthropocentric because it uses the objective to create/satisfy the subjective. We can probably model it as a pullback rather than a direct arrow from science to business.



Biz (B) -> Life (D)
Sci (C) -> Life (D)

Tech (A) -> Biz (B)
Tech (A) -> Sci (C)

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Chinese leadership is positioning itself as an enlightened alternative to America's dangerous arrogance and outright stupidity. Thanks to our very stable genius with a big button on his desk, the rest of Asia is increasingly buying it.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/from-military-history-to-culture-books-on-china-president-xi-jinpings-bookshelves