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Advertising is the world's oldest technology. 30,000 years of development. Super powerful. What would it look like if literally everybody bought the latest scam? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Technology can therefore be defined both as an ensemble of deliberately created processes and objects that together accomplish some function as well as the associated knowledge and skills used in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of such technological artifacts.

O. L. de Weck, Technology Roadmapping and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1_1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you have any understanding of your own? This secondhand, copy pasted stuff rings hollow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a scholar. It means not pulling stuff from your ass and citing your sources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

If you understand your subject then you can use your own words, no need for citation.

If you do not understand your subject then citation will only make things worse.