Mark And(erson) Technology is treated as something that pushes us around rather than something we create. It's a bother, it's a boon, it's a discipline, it's a given. "What people mean by the word technology," says computer designer Alan Kay, "is anything invented since they were born." Computer designer Danny Hillis counters, "What people mean by the word technology is the stuff that doesn't really work yet." Technology is both the problem and its own solution. No wonder it obsesses us.
from _The Clock of the Long Now_