I'm a bit off balance today, and some discussion in my Civilizations class brought about this nonsense. I still think it deserves to be mentioned (again), despite the inherent irony of me ranting about technology on website.

I know I'm a hypocrite just for saying it and also for saying it on the Internet,
and for being a child of the 1990's and all,
and for using computers since I was a toddler
and for never stopping since.

But sometimes I really hate technology.

It's tiresome and cumbersome and just icky.
I wish I wasn't hooked on electronics and modern technology.

Because you know what?
We're quickly building a civilization that functions beneath the radar. We're becoming virtual, invisible, untraceable...and that bothers me maybe because I'm so invested in the idea of artifacts and leaving something behind that says, hey, this is who we are and this is what we do and this is what we believe in, for future societies to study and understand.
And we're losing our artifacts, you know that?

We're getting closer and closer to existing purely in the ether. Nothing tangible. No books or writing or paper or tools or documents or maps.

All ones and zeroes now, and that's the kicker: we've created this elite language for our computers that can only be understood by machines and maybe a handful of living, breathing people.

We're pouring our lives into machines that we don't even fully understand (most of us, anyway ).

And when the technology traps us, really gets us cornered, when there's a glitch or a bug and we get all out of sorts, what do we do? Punch in 911. Hit the EMERGENCY button. Hit the PANIC button. We call on more technology to save us from our technology.

And we're growing a society that doesn't need to learn because the entire world's knowledge is a mouse-click away. But what happens when the system fails? Takes less than a second for everything to disappear and then what do we have? No more books. No more tales.
Just people and broken machines.

It just gives me bad vibes. I'd be happier with plain old modernism, though I know I could never rid myself of the addiction to electronics and I know that it's a crazy, irrational thing to even propose. Technology is what it is, and it's too late now to turn back.

I just don't like it.



I think if I could wean myself off of electronics, I'd be very happy living in a nice stone cottage in the Alps with some goats and some chickens.
And maybe a dog.

/tangent.

My apologies, I'm normally not this dense. I just get...worked up sometimes. I really prefer modernism over post-modernism, in almost any circumstances.
And I think that our medical advances are perhaps the ONLY exception.

Anyways.
Much loves,
Myralee


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