Actually, a root word of technology, , originally meant art. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.
Robert M. Pirsig
Actually, a root word of technology, , originally meant art. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.
Robert Maynard Pirsig (; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig.
