I’ve had this thread stirring in my head for a while. I’m still not sure it is entirely ripe yet, but I felt I should put this out there and see what the world thinks. I think there is a real article in here somewhere, and I fully expect to see articles in the press [...]

I’m probably going to show this video to my students over the summer as we discuss various definitions of technology. I’ve used this example before to illustrate technology as manufacturing; for some reason this is the picture in my head when I think ‘manufacturing’. They don’t make crayons like this any more, of course, but [...]