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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Feb 2019
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    I've often had an idle thought of creating a "technology appreciation" course like art history. It's amazing how oblivious people are to the world they live in. Even when things like factory tours are open to the public, usually normies only want to go if it's a chocolate factory

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      2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 28 Feb 2019
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        I've wanted engineering / infrastructure appreciation for a long time. Science and tech museums don't really treat it that way. Also, if humanists turn up their noses, what's our word for uncultured?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Feb 2019
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        Innumerate for math so... Intechnorate?

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      2.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 28 Feb 2019
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        Like how it's made?pic.twitter.com/es0x8u49Xz

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Feb 2019
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        No, more aesthetic level

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      2. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Feb 2019
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        This is why I'm doing @rootsofprogress. E.g., this post where I argue that cement is basically magic:https://rootsofprogress.org/instant-stone-just-add-water …

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      3. Steve Hegarty‏ @hfreb 1 Mar 2019
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        Agree with this, but it's now environmentally unaffordable. Similar to oil

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      1. Priya‏ @Prigoose 27 Feb 2019
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        One summer my mom and a friend's mom planned a bunch of factory 'field trips' for the kids. We went to a cheese factory, the Hershey's factory, the Jelly Belly factory, a fortune cookie factory, and...a Budweiser factory. I still have vivid memories of each!

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      1. Renée Stephen‏ @ReneeStephen 27 Feb 2019
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        I used to give duct tours. People do not get to stand in enough air ducts and be excited by the scale of machinery and I decided it was time. Machine rooms are magical. 2000A circuits! Gigantic chillers! Enthalpy wheels!! And, really large ducts. I think I swayed some normies?

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      1. Y.K. Goon‏ @ykgoon 27 Feb 2019
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        It crossed my mind to make software using-experience like gourmet food, highlighting each component, their makers and the trouble it took to get it done.

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      1. Brett Williams‏ @brettlwilliams 28 Feb 2019
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        I think part of the antipathy towards this in general is the ritualised insider-outsider dance of humiliation. I used to give tours of carriages, and about 85% of my job was managing tourist feelings. People often want to try to establish dominance, not understand.

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