I agree with the idea in this article about how technology has detached itself from the machine and transformed society in unexpected ways, and I like how it challenges the assumption that technology inherently brings freedom. Tyranny is a big word, where have you felt this? We definitely need to critically examine our relationship with technology and its impact on societal structures and personal autonomy.
Hi D. Rita ... since you asked "where have you felt this?" Take a few examples, personal and social to view the existing tyranny.
1. As an artist, the corresponding industry that I belong to, is defined by endless technological innovation and not so much by human desires, potential and creativity.
2. As a person dedicated to Ecology, the mainstream hubris combined with false confidence, is an outcome of technological determinism. For every problem we have a Techno-Fix!
3.Without acquiring the latest technology, we often feel left out or totally useless.
+ We are truly free of one thing because of Technology, and that is responsibility. What makes for a generally irresponsible society, numbering billions. Take for example the internet. Who is responsible?
Power, be it hard or soft, American or Chinese or Russia or X, is but dependent on various types of Technology (military, movies, mass media, internet etc)
+ How many buttons (based on technology) are we pressing every waking hour?!
Only be a perception but perception is reality. This article reminded me of a documentary called “stare into the lights my pretties”. I highly recommend it. Borders on the idea of transhumanism. Maybe that is simply part of human evolution but who am I to say?
Hi... and thanks for reading. The text is mostly coming from an pro ecological, anti-technological mindset. Will life remain as we know it? No... However, as for being "part of human evolution" one must frame or form your own opinions and choices.
Your post mirrors the complaints we already realize about Technology. There is both good and bad. The bad is that it is being manipulated by the superclass elites . The good is that it has changed our lives both in a positive and negative way . We can’t go back and many who want to continue to support themselves and their families are now inured to “ the system “. We know how our totalitarian governments now censor and surveil all of using technology. Case in point I overheard a mother proudly announce that her daughter had got a job in government and she’ll be taken care of for the rest of her life and to expect a great pension. Technocracy has taken over our lives. But those writing and reading about it as in this post recognize our fight not to entirely lose ourselves to it but that there is a hope and a necessity to channel how it is integrated into this planet of biological humans.
Hi and thanks for reading / sharing. I wrote the text as a response to my own failure, to go beyond and think beyond the T n T. "she’ll be taken care of for the rest of her life and to expect a great pension." Perhaps The Only Way To The End of Life.
Hi. The essay, the text should explain why and how. Their power depends on Technology and not on themselves as people + the same goes for the others listed.
The article read like a polemic against things you object to personally, but what exactly qualifies you to pass judgment on the way other people lead their lives? More to the point, what are you offering as a solution? Calling senior statesmen 'thugs' isn't going to do it, nor is ascribing power to an abstraction like Technology as if it were somehow responsible for what ails us, rather than the outcome of the decisions of the people who designed and use that technology. What exactly is your thesis anyway? That it's all hopeless? In that case why bother writing at all? I'm not a big fan of Bob Dylan, but he definitely nailed it when he wrote "The Times They Are A-Changin’"
"rather than the outcome of the decisions of the people who designed and use that technology." No Bear, You Absolutely Wrong About That. The text makes it sufficiently clear what I think and see, based on facts. It's about our relationship with Technology - and NOT about the set of "thugs" (our vicious leaders) who prevail. I suggest you read, before veering off about Bob Dylan and some La-dee-da " Oh yes, the " senior statesman " also are mass murdering thugs
I agree with the idea in this article about how technology has detached itself from the machine and transformed society in unexpected ways, and I like how it challenges the assumption that technology inherently brings freedom. Tyranny is a big word, where have you felt this? We definitely need to critically examine our relationship with technology and its impact on societal structures and personal autonomy.
Hi D. Rita ... since you asked "where have you felt this?" Take a few examples, personal and social to view the existing tyranny.
1. As an artist, the corresponding industry that I belong to, is defined by endless technological innovation and not so much by human desires, potential and creativity.
2. As a person dedicated to Ecology, the mainstream hubris combined with false confidence, is an outcome of technological determinism. For every problem we have a Techno-Fix!
3.Without acquiring the latest technology, we often feel left out or totally useless.
+ We are truly free of one thing because of Technology, and that is responsibility. What makes for a generally irresponsible society, numbering billions. Take for example the internet. Who is responsible?
Power, be it hard or soft, American or Chinese or Russia or X, is but dependent on various types of Technology (military, movies, mass media, internet etc)
+ How many buttons (based on technology) are we pressing every waking hour?!
Good read! Freedom may
Only be a perception but perception is reality. This article reminded me of a documentary called “stare into the lights my pretties”. I highly recommend it. Borders on the idea of transhumanism. Maybe that is simply part of human evolution but who am I to say?
Hi... and thanks for reading. The text is mostly coming from an pro ecological, anti-technological mindset. Will life remain as we know it? No... However, as for being "part of human evolution" one must frame or form your own opinions and choices.
Your post mirrors the complaints we already realize about Technology. There is both good and bad. The bad is that it is being manipulated by the superclass elites . The good is that it has changed our lives both in a positive and negative way . We can’t go back and many who want to continue to support themselves and their families are now inured to “ the system “. We know how our totalitarian governments now censor and surveil all of using technology. Case in point I overheard a mother proudly announce that her daughter had got a job in government and she’ll be taken care of for the rest of her life and to expect a great pension. Technocracy has taken over our lives. But those writing and reading about it as in this post recognize our fight not to entirely lose ourselves to it but that there is a hope and a necessity to channel how it is integrated into this planet of biological humans.
Hi and thanks for reading / sharing. I wrote the text as a response to my own failure, to go beyond and think beyond the T n T. "she’ll be taken care of for the rest of her life and to expect a great pension." Perhaps The Only Way To The End of Life.
You make no sense and you sound partly insane. However there are millions
of people like you. Now Get Lost!
"...global thugs like Putin, Xi-Ping..."
Seriously?
Hi. The essay, the text should explain why and how. Their power depends on Technology and not on themselves as people + the same goes for the others listed.
The article read like a polemic against things you object to personally, but what exactly qualifies you to pass judgment on the way other people lead their lives? More to the point, what are you offering as a solution? Calling senior statesmen 'thugs' isn't going to do it, nor is ascribing power to an abstraction like Technology as if it were somehow responsible for what ails us, rather than the outcome of the decisions of the people who designed and use that technology. What exactly is your thesis anyway? That it's all hopeless? In that case why bother writing at all? I'm not a big fan of Bob Dylan, but he definitely nailed it when he wrote "The Times They Are A-Changin’"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE
"rather than the outcome of the decisions of the people who designed and use that technology." No Bear, You Absolutely Wrong About That. The text makes it sufficiently clear what I think and see, based on facts. It's about our relationship with Technology - and NOT about the set of "thugs" (our vicious leaders) who prevail. I suggest you read, before veering off about Bob Dylan and some La-dee-da " Oh yes, the " senior statesman " also are mass murdering thugs
#ebear, Here's a link that may suggest why technology is out of control and soon all nations will pay the price: https://www.mdpi.com/search?authors=william+e+rees&journal=world