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> Nothing, ever, is just a tool.

Are you going to expand on this or should we stand in awe?

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It didn't receive much attention on HN but someone recently wrote a blogpost that elaborates on the idea. https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

No need to go to Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, once required reading in many a school where I'm from; the logical conclusion and application of polysemy [1], amongst other things, should get the ball rolling just as well.

1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy]




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