What is technology and how do tool complexes reshape human needs?

Three related spheres of technology are:

	Tools as artifacts
Organizational Aspects		Metaphorical Aspect
labor institutions systematic links		engines of change "dynamo of activity" "good shepherd"

Technology, as one student says "gets inside of your head," because all tools according to Sir Peter Medawar are actually an extension of the human capacity for sensing, adapting to circumstances in acquiring a living and extending our capacity to utilize ourselves and the world in a harmony of purpose.

This capacity of tools that come together into complexes based on materials, labor and ingenuity and this reform the user, the maker, the distributor and their associated worlds is best seen in Arnold Pacey's descritpion of the three facets, aspects or features of technology, which we will call dimensions because they may be visulaized as different intersecting planes.

technology as meaning in the hands | visual feature of tools | social meaning of technology

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