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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Technology, Literature, Scientists, and Engineers
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 17:38:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 17:38:00 1985
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>/* mac@uvacs.UUCP /  6:29 pm  Jun 13, 1985 */

>	The term _technique_, as I use it, does not mean machines,
>	technology, or this or that procedure for attaining an end.
>	In our technological society, _technique is the totality of
>	methods rationally arrived at and having absolute
>	efficiency_ (for a given stage of development) in _every_
>	field of human activity.  Its characteristics are new; the
>	technique of the present has no common measure with that of
>	the past.

Huh?  What does this mean?