Quote of the Day: modern technology

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The ancient world had no concept corresponding to what we today call technology.


-- Sven Ove Hansson, Technology as a Practical Art.

Chapter 4. M. Franssen et al. (eds.), Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn,
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33717-3_4