I sat in the back of a large meeting room, listening to a long and boring discussion. I began to knit. You knit just like my mother. Of course, her mother was also German, and there is a German way of knitting. I think it is important to realize that technology defined as practice shows us the deep cultural link of technology, and it saves us from thinking that technology is the icing on the cake.
Technology is part of the cake itself.
Like democracy, technology is a multifaceted entity. It includes activities as well as a body of knowledge, structures as well as the act of structuring. Our language itself is poorly suited to describe the complexity of technological interactions. Dr. Ursula Franklin is an experimental physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.