From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/05/30 Message-ID: <14DD9915F3146E5D.0BDA1251CC6A6311.BE1EA76D528B3EC6@library-proxy.airnews.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244876381 References: <5mkh80$7ph$2@news.cc.ucf.edu> X-Orig-Message-ID: <338e410b.748462@news.airmail.net> Organization: INTERNET AMERICA NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher) wrote: >Craig Franck (clfranck@worldnet.att.net) wrote: >: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher) wrote: >: >Craig Franck (clfranck@worldnet.att.net) wrote: >: > >: >: (I don't think calculus is "technology" but represented an advancement of >: >: mathematics when it was invented by Newton (or that Leibnitz fellow)). >: > >: >: So, a NAND gate is not technology, but transistors and the ability to >: > >: >Isn't "technology" a relatively new word? > >: I would imagine. The concept of technology and its diffusion through >: society started in Europe in the 16th century. This is from "The > >I sort of meant that Calculus was invented say about 300 years before the >word "technology" so if the word had existed when calculus was invented, >maybe it would have been used to describe something like "Mathematica >Thechnologitica" or something like that.... Evidently not true. Calculus was invented in the 17th century by Newton. Another poster has stated that the OED dates "technology" to 1614, so it appears that the word "technology" predates calculus. >