James Drogan

Jim - hope you'll pardon the intrusion but your post and the PDF on knowing Technology struck me as interesting and a nice introduction that calls for diving several levels deeper. It also seems to me that one can provide more specific framing and examples. Perhaps another way to put it is that you outline the broad conceptual questions that must be dealth with and the next iterations should be examples and illustrative answers.

Underneath those observations is my belief, grounded now in my oh so vast Tech experiences (says the student to the Master), that one can indeed frame up Technology so it's more easily graspable. In fact there seem to me to be some things that have held up remarkably well.

As possible candidates and food for thought I've e-mailed a PPT that you might want to recast in your own inimitable form and way in follow-on.

Well, you're correct, of course. Once one has a good handle on what s/he needs to know about technology one needs to apply the knowledge.

Pages 7-8 introduce the notion of application, but were not intended to go into detail on the matter. My ideas on the application of knowledge are covered in the lecture notes on MIS in Transportation.

Thanks for the PPT. I will shamelessly steal.