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From: lied@ihlts.UUCP (Bob Lied)
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Subject: Re: Technology, Literature, Scientists, and Engineers
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 19:06:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 19:06:25 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?

I don't know, but it's going into the abstract of my next document.  :-).

	Bob Lied	ihnp4!ihlts!lied