Saying that a science-fiction writer doesn’t really write about technology proper is perhaps the base of insults in that literary world, and one–I suspect–often reserved for the women of the genre. Ursula K. Le Guin writes a rant, republishing from her website below, arguing that technology is not just wires and servers but also “the active human interface with the material world.” Read the original version here.   In an interesting and favorable notice of Ch...