Re: <nettime> Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can change it.

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

This.

Ignoring the presence of intermediary (with own agenda) between the 
technology and its deployer/user, and calling the intermediary 'the 
technology', is the most dangerous aspect of present indoctrination.

We are slowly (or not so slowly) sliding back to the pre-Gutenberg era, 
where only the Church can produce and interpret books. Because printing, 
writing and reading is so complicated and inconvenient.


> Somewhere along the line we as a culture have forgotten the distinction between
> 'technology' and 'services'.  A 'technology' is really just a method or system
> for applying knowledge to a problem; any individual or business could choose to
> implement (or commission, or lease, or purchase outright) that technology
> independently and control it completely.  A 'service', on the other hand, might
> use technology, but individuals and businesses who use such services do not own
> or control that technology directly.



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