Again, I reiterate, because this is important!
Techno-scientific psychology. The study of how the environments that people live in affect what subset of all scientific knowledge is actually contained within their head, and also how technology plays a role in that.
Throughout all of human history, different people who lived in different geographic environments had trouble from moving from one environment to the next. Why? Of course, because their brains only had the pertinent scientific knowledge for one environment. Not until their actions in their daily lives exercised a mental requirement for scientific knowledge of another environment did those people start learning the scientific principles that govern that environment. Namely, that exercise was met through moving into the target environment and living within it.
As it turns out, technology only causes a slight modification to this equation. No longer do you have to move to a particular environment to experience particular conditions. Rather, technology can bring those new conditions toward you in your current environment. This is especially important with microscale and mega-macroscale environments. The main example of “mega-macroscale” as I define it here are space exploration. For sure, it’s totally impossible for humans to do without technology. So, the other thing that technology can do: rather than needing to physically transform to an entirely different being, technology can augment yourself to be able to work and live inside inhospitable environments.
- Footnote: Only on the mega-macroscale, of course! We know of nothing that can do likewise on the microscale.
A particularly relevant example that comes home in the professional software engineering community: getting fat. Whereas an hobbyist might spent too little time a day continuously at a computer to think that using a computer could make you fat, it’s a reality for some professional software engineers. So, nowadays, many software engineering colleagues will be well-versed in the science of fat accumulation and what to do to control it. Standing desks, walking breaks, low-carbohydrate diets. Heck, I personally wouldn’t have thought twice about including this in my predominantly hobby-related blog had it not been for someone else writing an article in their blog. So here we go.
20180528/http://joelglovier.com/writing/dat-low-carb-lifestyle
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Oh, and another note from a colleague. If you do a low-carb diet and start breaking down fat fast, you might need to increase your salt intake as the ketosis process requires more of it.
20180528/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis