Science and Technology
- Language Independent Datatypes (now General Purpose Datatypes), in computer science
- Library Interchange Definition, file format in the Open Dylan programming language
- Light-Weight Identity, a protocol for claiming a digital identity on the Internet
- Lithium deuteride, a chemical used as deuterium-dense fuel in thermonuclear weapons
- Local light injection and detection, in fiber optics, a method to determine fiber splice losses, especially in polarisation-maintaining fiber
- League for Industrial Democracy, political party
- Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats), Polish political party
- The ICAO code for Alidaunia Servizio Helibus, an aviation company
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)