| ▲ | flir 3 hours ago | |
> A motorbike wants to be ridden that way That's a lovely example. But is the dangerous thing the bike, or the infrastructure, or the system that means you're late for work? I completely get what you're saying. I was thinking of tools in the narrowest possible way - of the tool in isolation (I could use this gun as a doorstop). You're thinking of the tool's interface with its environment (in the real world nobody uses guns as doorstops). I can't deny that's the more useful way to think about tools ("computation undoubtedly shapes society"). | ||