Oh yes they can: - writing - firearms - electricity
It's just that a new sushi app (unrelated to sashimi app), which is considered 'technology' today, is not of the same order of fundamental magnitude. Digital bearer instrument that manages to penetrate commerce without being squashed early on, could be of the same importance and impact. It is really all about going back to neutral standards (gold, cost of electricity) and depriving state of most of its fiat income. > Thinking that (new or) more "rational instruments" from the technology > (and/or science, ethic, culture...) BY THEMSELVES can change something > in, let's call, social psychosystem, is a misunderstanding of Comte and > Hegel scripts. It is a return # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
