Part technology news website, half database of all firms digital, TechCrunch is a startup paradise with its finger firmly on the pulse. If you ever get the chance to go to one of TC’s meetups, they’re stuffed with whacky inventors trying to get a bit of protection and the publication’s Disrupt conferences are legendary. Technology, the appliance of scientific knowledge to the sensible goals of human life or, as it’s typically phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment. Whether Internet technology is “making us stupid” is broadly debated. For extra on the talk about whether or not…