It’s going to be a deep dive but here we are. Technology has a number of aspects in education, some of which are pragmatic and grounded in actual use but what if we were to see technology as just an alternative species of intellectual capital that participants can use the same way they use scholarship in their discipline to gain field position? Not completely absurd. It was certainly the case early in the cognitive revolution when being able to build and operate a modern language lab could get you tenure and promotion.

Of course for a person in a technical field itself it’s just intellectual capital, but if you aren’t in a technological field it’s an alternative form.