Part technology news website, part database of all firms digital, TechCrunch is a startup paradise with its finger firmly on the heartbeat. If you ever get the chance to go to one of TC’s meetups, they’re filled with whacky inventors making an attempt to get a bit of coverage and the publication’s Disrupt conferences are legendary. Technology, the applying of scientific information to the sensible aims of human life or, as it is typically phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human surroundings. Whether Internet technology is “making us silly” is widely debated. For more on the controversy about…