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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Protocolization is the conditioning of the human mind to direct habitation of technological environments without the need for mediation by strong naturalistic experience metaphors. Good protocols expose more agency and hide non-agentic complexity, bad ones expose the complexities with no increase in agency.
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Random question I thought I had about tech, but might be about protocols. My original question was: When did soap stop being a technology? My new question is: When did being clean become a protocol?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale. Soapmaking used to be housewife work and more about cosmetics/aesthetics than disinfectant use until ~1890s. Modern clinical hygiene protocolized soap but very slowly, see Gawande’s slow ideas essay. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas
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Boom! 🙏 This looks like a great flashpoint for me. After I deal with some /unglish nonsense.
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