If you ask me, and I know that you didn't, technology doesn't have to be widely used to be successful, it just has to lead to something else.
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As you've said before, a lot of that hinges on how you define success, which you just did for yourself. I feel much the same way about research - if it leads somewhere, teaches you something, inspires someone, or enriches someone, it was worth it. It is only a failure if it is empty, or poorly executed enough that it detracts from the subject.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yep. I agree. Lots of different measures for things like success and they are all valid. Or rather, who are we to say which measures are more valid?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And therein lies t question, what does it lead to? How has the enlightenment/modernity affected us peeps? Better/worse? Wikip: "Discours sur les sciences et les arts" par Rousseau see the v.anglo ~
most scathing critique eva. Voltaire even, 40 years daft. Rousseau argues most genuine progress is within ethics, release from immaturity to our own way out. <aside:Kant's a big fat liar, using 'Ausgang' / exit, much like his other texts on history>
- sofarsoShawn
The enlightened generally make more money. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I <3 indoor plumbing. Yay modernity!
- Amit Patel
I usually don't believe everything I read about "reviews", be it movies, technology, food, cars, etc. I make my own opinions based on what I see and experience and understand about stuff. Technology is anything that makes life easier, safer, more manageable, and more fun. Kind of a leveled up machine with new features or an idea that became reality on so many angles.
- SophiaAnne88