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Familiarity breeds usefulness

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Screen shot 2009-11-07 at 06.26.33.png I found this telling cartoon in the process of hunting down references for an overdue chapter in a book on decision making. It makes the very important point that tools are the difference between being well fed and being the good meal. It triggered me to think more about tools and their role in human sense-making. Without tools we are nothing, but tools exist to augment human intelligence and soc...


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