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From: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/29
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Date: 1997-05-29T00:00:00+00:00
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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....