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		yawpitch 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This is not the future > Technology is a living organism. Oh my, the shear number of philosophers, biologists, ethicists, and, for that matter, bacterium rotating in their graves. Life might be a technology… many technologies are not only not-living, they’re mutually contradictory with life.

ansc 36 days ago [–]

A bit mean-spirited I think, but not unreasonable. organism: "a system or organization consisting of interdependent parts, compared to a living being". I removed the "living" part of it to allow for a bit more... abstract thinking.

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