The role of songs and verse Navigating the site:
Arnold Pacey, a physicist looking at tool making and use.
Is music the origin of technological virtuosity, or as Pursell argues, is the development of language in prehistoric culture responsible for exaptation in tool use?
Chapter 1. Music, Sources of Technology
Singing the World into creation
-- an Australian aboriginal superstition or wisdom?
... also implies dancing and poetry
"to interpret the world and give it meaning"
p. 17
"how technology helps to endow our world with meaning."
"We must understand how the aesthetic is intertwined with the practical, how the giving of meaning is related to building and making...."
p. 18
"the real sources of technology .... are to be found in the human body."
John Blacking, p. 23.
Worldview Animistic Mechanistic third way way of seeing animism mechanism subtle faith in our beliefs organic mechanical inadequate character evolving causal inclusive behavior spontaneous repetitive p. 37
"The worldview that I presuppose in this book,... portrays technology as part of a more subtle nature than causal mechanical models allow."
1. Music, Sources of Technology
6. Exploration, Invention and the Remaking of Nature
8. Knowledge Pregnant with Evil
9. People Centered Technology
Three realms of technology or aspects of technical power
