科幻作家厄休拉·勒古恩在2005年发表评论，对批评家关于其作品"技术被仔细避免"的说法进行了驳斥[1]。勒古恩指出，这些评论家对"技术"一词存在误读，将其狭隘地限定于最近几十年出现的复杂高科技[1]。
在这篇评论中，勒古恩提出了对技术的广义理解[1]。她主张技术应被定义为"人与物质世界的活跃界面"[1]，范围涵盖从火焰到计算机等所有人造物[1]。基于这一定义，勒古恩认为"所有科幻小说，无论如何，都是技术性的"[1]，从而反驳了认为她的作品缺乏技术内容的批评。
Science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin published a commentary in 2005 challenging critics who claimed her work deliberately avoided technological content.[1] Le Guin responded that all science fiction necessarily engages with technology, but that the term itself had been fundamentally misunderstood by contemporary critics.[1] She argued that "technology" should not be narrowly defined as the complex, cutting-edge innovations of recent decades, but rather as "the active interface between humanity and the material world."[1]
In her rebuttal, Le Guin contended that technology encompasses everything humans create to interact with their physical environment—from fire to computers.[1] By this broader definition, she asserted that "all science fiction, by definition, is technological."[1] Her commentary addressed critics' mischaracterization of her work, demonstrating how their narrow understanding of the term had led them to misread her fiction as technologically sparse when, in fact, it engaged with technology through a more expansive lens.[1]