An example of technological progress subsuming broader things and abstracting them into something larger. Most good mathematical and physical theories exhibit this sort of behaviour.
Cross reference Simon Singh’s Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV. 1
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We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. —Winston Churchill
Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. — John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)
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We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us — Quote Investigator | syndication link
A discussion of the origin of the quote about our tools shaping us.
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MOC: Read on 2021-06-08
There’s not only engaging directly with those who came before, but using those same annotations (sometimes moved into different contexts) to regularly re-engage with, refine, and extend one’s own thinking.
Annotations aren’t only a conversation with a particular text, but should also serve to begin a conversation with one’s self.
In particular I’m thinking of the tradition of commonplace books, waste books, and zettelkasten.
Some notable examples of this sort of thinking pattern can be seen in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Hans Blumenberg, and Niklas Luhmann. Isaac Newton famously created the calculus in his waste book.
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The practice of scholarship is the practice of engaging in written dialogue with those who came before. Aristotle’s regular engagement with the things said by his predecessors is an important part of his legomenology. tags: Aristotle, Legomenology —cplong on May 28 1
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Annotation on [[Joining the ‘great conversation’ — The fundamental role of annotation in academic society]] | syndication link↩︎
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“Possibility is the destruction of contentment.” —G.E.M. Anscombe1
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“You Can Have Sex Without Children” (?) as quoted in The City of God - Lecture 15 - Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)↩︎
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While thinking about categorizing my [[Memory MOC]]
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The purpose of differential topology is to go further with the study of manifolds using geometric tools supplemented with algebraic tools.
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To go further with the study of manifolds, which is the principal aim of differential topology, the geometric tools described here must be supplemented by more powerful algebraic tools. 1
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