We seem to forget that the Greek techne (τέχνη) means "art," "craft," or "skill." In ancient Greece, techne referred to the knowledge of how to make or do something— and I think ultimately technology is a subset of techne. Techne is who we’ve always been. 

Space infrastructure, flying cars, and new AI models - maybe aren’t futuristic technologies, but rather as inevitable tributaries in the river of techne and humanity over time

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I'd like to write more about this and turn it into a blog post

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Wonder how the world would have changed if we thought of technology as ‘useful art’ or a craft ?

You should read Heidegger’s essay on science and technology for this 

He interprets techne as “something that is brought forth or revealed”

Yes, and I think the key difference I’ve been thinking about between Kelly’s argument (technology as a super organism that wants to evolve into something) and mine is that - techne, is ultimately— us.

What I mean by this — every neural network is trained on human data — our stories, our art, our language, our biases. If all of that is ultimately techne, AI is not a new emerging intelligence; it is trained on our techne, but also our techne, a continuation of human thought, a distillation of our collective intelligence. It is us.

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Yes 

https://warpcast.com/july/0x8d3470fb

Have you read “what technology wants” yet?

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well i'm writing an essay about techne right now

techne is one of my fav words

I think I own thw techneia@gmail email, got it some years ago, wanto to fund a startup called techneia but realized that I need a product first 😅

Love this. 

Bricks, sundials, spears, bows, textile clothing…all technologies that were highly disruptive for their time.

the art of being human forever flowing forward

I even forget about the multiple facets of this word and I’m a native speaker. Thank you for reminding us this.

We used to label all of our crop sessions the “Art, Science, and Craft of Growing X”

Never have heard of techne

I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to classic languages; yet I like the notion of progress including skill.

Look forward to reading the writing.

We used to label all of our crop sessions the “Art, Science, and Craft of Growing X”

Never have heard of techne

I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to classic languages; yet I like the notion of progress including skill.

Look forward to reading the writing.

https://www.brixbounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Brix-Bounty-2017-NOFA-Summer-Conference-Profitable-Onions-6-slides-per-page.pdf