From: J. Maxwell Legg (income@ihug.co.nz)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 05:54:04 MDT
Today I learnt some new words from classical greek. They are "ducation",
"enter" "erospace", "cience", and last but not least "echnology". I learnt
these word forms from the website of ASTEC. I did so only after Robin
Hanson's misattribution to what doug bailey wrote. Initially the typo
seemed to me to have been a hidden move. It may turn out not to be so. I
understand this and offer the following for its spoof value only.
Thanks.
Robin Hanson wrote:
> doug bailey wrote:
> >... The more dramatic the implications of a echnology are,
> >he more heated (and irrational) skeptics an be.
EARLIER TODAY:
"The above phrase seems to be from an ancient greek occult system." I
thought to myself.
Indeed there is even a "College of echnology" on Infoseek. Pardon my
ignorance.
"But, is this like an 'ethnology'?". Hanson rarely makes deliberate
mistakes and on such a precise subject matter, or so I thought.
On further inspection the hard "c" [as in ekus; meaning "out of us"] and
the "human: h", "knowledge: no", "study:logy" [as in ec'h`no'logy] could,
at a stretch, turn out to be an occult greek code word for that little
something that you and I don't know anything about. Coded to look like a
typo.
But in the meantime, I had to find out just what 'echnology' is all about.
Well my guess, from reading the rest of Hanson's reply, was that echnology
is a scholarly plateau of surmising of what may become a new Technology.
[N.B. here the first letter "T" has been added to a the greek root
combinatoric "ec+h+no+logy".]
Extropy could be, I considered, a first rate 'echnology' [which I took to
be a science in "all likelihood" and will, when proven, become an accepted
technology.]
Am I making any sense and would anyone like to hear more?
ciao,
j.
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