A continuation of not so sucsessful start of going into philosophy of technology ...

The term techne, from which we derive 'technology' in ancient Greek denoted the unique ability of a member of a community make things to benefit the collective, such as effective shelters. A skilled person's techne was his identity within a community: "the house-builder," "the potter." By Plato's time the term came to denote standardization, in other words, the ability to measure and to discern excellence in made things. Techne became divorced from the technites, the maker of things. It came to mean a pulling-apart instead of a putting-together. In this way, our understanding of technology, which was once holistic, came to be fragmented and pulled-apart.

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