We seldom think about it but most technology is all about moving away from scarcity
Technology seeks to provide ways of alleviating bottlenecks and short falls
Technology tries to overcome nature by providing alternatives
Providing other ways of achieving a solution
Unfortunately it is often an unrealised promise
As the problem keeps growing and unfolding requiring ever more technological effort
A technological promise even when realised is frequently overrun by new problems that the solution has now exposed
Problems totally unforeseen and now needing more money and attention before the cycle starts again
Take modern conveniences, all designed to save time and effort
True many of them do individually save time and effort
However collectively they keep us running all day long to pay for them
So what did we really gain?
Technology also removes us from each other as most are ways of replacing the human interface we had with technicians and trades people
Technology is also central to our increasing separation from each other
Ever thought about it
The industrial revolution created accurate time to get the workers into the factories
Workers who moved from their villages to urban squalor, breaking centuries of relationships and community
Towns grew rapidly during this period and people recreated relationships with neighbours
Until
Along comes the radio people tend to listen to this alone = less time with neighbours
TV = less time with neighbours
Car = less time at home, more time alone
Computers = more time alone
Mobile phones = private portable world communicating with distant others
Yet technology still claims that it can solve our problems
Only in providing devices and communications it can
Technology cannot cure our increasing separation from each other
Technology is the unseen menace that is changing humanity at a breathtaking speed
A menace in the sense that it creates and exposes endless new problems
A world where we are are all separated from each other is not what we are here for
We are here to interact and nurture our planet back to health
And to do that we need to reconnect with each other
To spend time with each other not some machine pretending to offer solutions
Wake up to what it can be to be human
Personal, physical interactions
Time with each other
Yes time
The time you currently give to all your devices
The time you use promising others that you will one day meet...............
Nuf said?
Technology is also central to our increasing separation from each other
Ever thought about it
The industrial revolution created accurate time to get the workers into the factories
Workers who moved from their villages to urban squalor, breaking centuries of relationships and community
Towns grew rapidly during this period and people recreated relationships with neighbours
Until
Along comes the radio people tend to listen to this alone = less time with neighbours
TV = less time with neighbours
Car = less time at home, more time alone
Computers = more time alone
Mobile phones = private portable world communicating with distant others
Yet technology still claims that it can solve our problems
Only in providing devices and communications it can
Technology cannot cure our increasing separation from each other
Technology is the unseen menace that is changing humanity at a breathtaking speed
A menace in the sense that it creates and exposes endless new problems
A world where we are are all separated from each other is not what we are here for
We are here to interact and nurture our planet back to health
And to do that we need to reconnect with each other
To spend time with each other not some machine pretending to offer solutions
Wake up to what it can be to be human
Personal, physical interactions
Time with each other
Yes time
The time you currently give to all your devices
The time you use promising others that you will one day meet...............
Nuf said?
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