A friend told me--I'm paraphrasing--that I was boring and needed to put more fun stuff in my philosophy. So, naturally, I provided you with supplemental gifs that should entertain you while I rant.
Sometimes, I just have days where everything I learn is completely connected and I just have to write about it. Today's message from the universe: Just because technology is advancing, doesn't mean our society is progressing with it, and that sometimes the two are inherently opposed against one another. I will begin with stating the two points I'm trying to make:
Technological advances provide an opportunity to do more for less.
Society constantly struggles with the trade-off between tradition and progression.
If you can just agree (or not) on my two assumptions there, I'll build from that. I'm going with an economic definition of technology to appeal to all of you crypto people (who, frankly, I'm still trying to understand). It's the ability to produce more outputs for less input. However, as commonly happens, we start producing more and more outputs only to realize that every extra output has been at the cost of someone else. On the flip side, we are producing more output for less input in general, so in a sense we're not taking away as much and maybe saving some people a bit of trouble.
In other words, as technology allows us to advance, it's going to do so at the cost of some people. On the flip side, technology also allows us to help people who would never be helped otherwise. And it's our job as a society to figure out what technology is going to do and what we're willing to live with. I think this kind of outlines one of our core struggles as human beings and I could talk about it for hours. It's really even the core to my studies-- science vs. humanity--infinitely opposed and interdependent all in one breath. A dichotomy that rules our history, future, politics, arts, religions, finances, and even our medical decisions.
Ultimately technology is going to challenge our definitions of what it means to be human and our overall way of life. Our job is to decide which technology will help us become a better species and which technology is better left in the research papers and sci-fi novels.
I interrupt my oddly timed, yet applicable Watchmen gifs with this important message:
Also, haven't read this book, but it sounds like it could be a good one!
http://www.futuristgerd.com/2016/09/01/press-release-gerd-leonhards-new-book-technology-vs-humanity-the-coming-clash-between-man-and-machine/
I plan on writing about this more, I didn't want to get into all the specifics. Stay tuned for more. :)
Also, I don't mean to come across anti-technology. I'm simply advocating for a level of self-awareness, promise.
Pictures (in order of use)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machine-learning-nothing-without-human-alex-kirk
https://www.tumblr.com/search/c:%20jon%20osterman
http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/02/08/deadpool-why-x-rated-comic-book-movies-rule/
https://www.tenor.co/view/rorschach-watchmen-god-we-do-gif-7386979
http://weheartit.com/entry/147127497
https://giphy.com/search/please-clap
no such thing as 'technology vs humanity'
humanity is defined by technology.
without tech humans don't exist.
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I'm not sure how they can be one in the same. I could see technology being a necessary tool for survival, but not the very core of our existence. Could you explain more?
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ok...I'll try.
(the subject is actually worth a book...maybe one day)
executive summary.
Learning that is taught could be said to be a form of technology. (most extremely primitive form possible)
Animals that do not have ANY technology are NOT taught taken care of by their parents. I'm thinking perhaps, turtles, snakes, cuttlefish, etc. Not to say that they are not intelligent, the cuttlefish certainly is....or that they don't learn..but nothing is passed on to the next generation. By my definition being able to pass on learning to the next generation is the minimium form of technology.
It doesn't even require language.
Lanquage is a BIG help though. Language is definitely technology. It's defnitely NOT instinct otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them.
And it progresses from there. Language, writing, matematics....mechanics, etc.
What I mean by "man is defined by his technology" is that man can NOT exist without it. We are entirely unsuitable to living without tools of any type. Unlike...say...a rattlesnake.
Soory...I didn't intent to disucuss politics.
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Thank you for clarifying your point! I can definitely understand that we can't exist without technology, but what about technology that becomes so advanced that we can't use it properly? I guess maybe I should have centered my point not on technology vs society, but technology that can challenge society. Right? like it can't always be a good thing?
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Free choice.
take the Amish for example. They have a certain level of technology that they are comfortable with and no more.
It's up to them.
Why not let people do as they please?
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I think the Amish are a great example. That being said, I agree that the Amish have effectively made a decision as a community what technology they are comfortable with. But they as a people decided that and I'm sure they will be challenged with future technologies and will have to decide what to do as well. But the point is--and the point of what I wrote above--is that we as a society have to decide what to use.
And therefore, individual free choice may be a difficult conclusion. Is it really free choice when their culture and traditions decided what level of technology they would limit themselves to? Some of this technology nowadays is so advanced that leaving it up to just a few individuals to manage would be highly dangerous.
So, where I do agree with you that the community needs to decide the technology they are comfortable with, I'm not entirely confident that it's a matter of free choice.
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no..we as a society don't have to do squat.
individuals decide...otherwise there is tyranny.
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The relationship between technology and society has always been a complex one, even going back to early language acquisition like you referenced. That one technology vastly changed what communication means over the centuries. Going from spoken oral traditions to writing, to the printing press, to the telegraph, radio, television, and now the internet. We may choose to further technologies to further our needs, but not the unintended outcomes they tend to bring with them. And that can be it's own tyranny.
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Okay......I'll clap
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Thanks fam
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waiting for part 2 . . .
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Thanks :) Will be coming soon!
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Part 2 is here! Check my blog :)
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