Sunday, August 23, 2009

response to did you know video

What does it all mean? It means that for the rest of my life, I will always be trying to catch up with technology. Its is impossible to stay ahead of the curve when it is impossible to even see the curve, much less see in what direction the curve is heading. I already feel like an old man, distrustful of this technology explosion, claiming how much better things were in my day, which was 2004. Why not be distrustful though? Advances in technology are supposed to make everything easier, right? Well, how are things supposed to be easier when as soon as I have my head wrapped around something after struggling with it for a while, that something is now out-dated and there is something else that is better? I guess that is what we want though. It's what we are going to get, regardless, if we keep placing such high demand for the fastest or most capacity or other technology terms I'm not completely familiar with. The question that comes up the most when thinking about technology comes from the World War Two era and then again from "Jurassic Park": it's not a matter of whether we could make all these advances, it's a matter of whether we should. When you think about it, what is the ultimate goal? The goal has to be to make life easier for all humans; but where is the dividing line between having an easy life and becoming obsolete? Technology's goal is to be able to reproduce the power of the sun and develop a micro computing system that is as advanced or more advanced than the human brain; when this is accomplished, what else is there left for humans to do?

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