📍 Kaya ML → AI Ethics → Ontology & Deep Time
❝ Maybe the most advanced technology isn’t a supercomputer—
but a society that can thrive in balance for 10,000 years. ❞
In the modern world, we often define technology as machines:
💻 Microchips, software, hardware, engines, infrastructure.
But what if technology is something older, deeper, and more human?
This article invites learners to redefine technology through the lens of relationship, resilience, and deep time—opening up the possibility that some ancient civilizations were more advanced than ours in the ways that matter most.
Technology = the art and system of sustaining life in right relationship with the world.
Not just what we build, but how we live.
| Modern Definition | Relational Definition |
|---|---|
| Tools to control the world | Tools to connect with the world |
| Progress = speed, power, scale | Progress = balance, longevity, beauty |
| Human vs. Nature | Human within Nature |
| Knowledge = data | Knowledge = experience, story, rhythm |
Many ancient cultures may have been technologically superior if we measure by: