It seems that nowadays everything that can be automated will be automated. Computers are everywhere. Technology marches on.
I just hope that we will use the powers of technology wisely. If we don't use our powers properly, we'll probably enter a brave new world. (psssssst. Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley about a nightmarish future in which technology is used very very badly.)
Sometimes I have a great respect for the Amish, and sometimes I think they're buffoons. I respect them when I think about how they've managed to keep their values relatively secure even in the face of so much modernity. I think they're buffoons when I think about how many more quilts they could make if they just started using computers and robots like everybody else.
Sometimes I have great respect for Wal-Mart, and sometimes I think they're soulless. I respect them when I marvel at how efficient and economical and successful they are. I think they're soulless when I think about how un-poetic they are.
Moral of this blog post, dramatically put: use technology wisely, or else the world will explode!
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i don't think we can stop the brave new world. the powers that be continue to march it forward. did you hear about the 100 billion the FBI is looking to compile a large data-base of info on citizens. they already have our fingerprints now they want our retnia scans, and DNA and a catolgy of any major scars on tattoos. why do they need this info on us? they say it is our safety. isn't that the reason in brave new world? i haven't read the book for a long time and sometimes confuse it with 1984.
but i guess my point is, technology will contined to be pushed in all directions, and some of those might be considered souless, or evil. but some people say not pushing technology would be soulless and evil.
you can't please them all
also walmart is souless. i used to work for them.
also i'm just thinking, what do you consider good uses for technology? what about all the medical improvments? they can almost re-grow a heart. and people can live longer with medicine. but maybe people shouldn't live that long, it's not natural.
The governent wants to know everything about us just because they can. The government has always known as much about us as technology allows. Do I like that? Not really. It treats the citizens like subjects to need to know everything about them. I don't like that at all. "But it's all for our own good! Public safety! Think of the chilren!" Is that the excuse? But society mostly put up with the government doing it becasue for the most part the government doesn't do anything bad with the info they have.
It can be a nightmare for those who get caught in the government crosshairs (but that has always been the case, regardless of the state of technology) but since most don't, most don't worry about it.
The Boid
"those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither" - ben franklin
or something along those lines.
So because historically speaking the government has always behaved this way, and the mass population neither knows nor cares, their actions are therefore justified?
it's not about what is or has been, it's about what it could be.
The Amish are soulless ...
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