Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Burke, James (2007-07-03), Connections, Simon and Schuster, Retrieved on 2012-01-28Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: Memes
28 JAN 2012
Tools Forever Changed Man's Relationship to Nature
[T]he moment man first picked up a stone or a branch to use as a tool, he altered irrevocably the balance between him and his environment. From this point on, the way in which the world around him changed was different. It was no longer regular or predictable. New objects appeared that were not recognizable as a mutation of something that existed before, and as each one merged it altered the environment not for one season, but for ever.Folksonomies: technology tool use
Folksonomies: technology tool use
The tools could change the environment in unpredictable ways.