"in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has their reasons" --- attrib. to Jean Renoir (details in the Quotes blog.)
Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
Monday, January 06, 2020
Tech is just a cool tool, folks. Move along now.
For my sins, I occasionally look at corporate PR to see how companies talk about tech. This post by Satya Nadella would certainly win a bunch of Cringe Awards. I was struck (but not surprised) that tech is portrayed as a tool – and not at all as something, as Heidegger argues, that changes everything into stuff-ready-to-be-used (cf. section 2.1 of this SEP entry).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)