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By husbandinthedreaming | May 10, 2008
Amazing modern technology
whenever i hear people say how amazing contemporary technology is, i wonder what era they’re contrasting the word “modern” to.are they thinking of the generation of the 1920s? the generations of the revival? it may be they’re thinking of the han dynasty of china. maybe they’re meditative of the ancient egyptians and the technological glance at it took to build the pyramids.are they thinking modern technology is more amazing than the era that produced the internal combustion appliance? the airplane? the cotton gin? gunpowder? the printing press? the happy bulb? metallurgy? the flush can?perchance they’re thinking of ancient days when amazing modern technology was a staunch, fountain-head-balanced club that meshed through with the arc of a human arm and could turn a goal into a mash of goo. the caveman who figured that one out probably received a masses of congratulatory grunts from his pals, and surely they walked around thinking how thoroughly modern they were.i know.”amazing modern technology” is no more than a individual of speech and people who use that phrase are exclusive making an idle comment about how amazing some newly invented technological application is. but figures of speech expose assumptions of how we view the world, and in this case, it reveals our awe-inspiring significance of self-importance.we who are bustling at the birth of the 21st century are much match any prior generation of altruist: we think we live in the most contemporary, technologically advanced world ever, which is true, of course, but it’s so constantly accurate as to be irrelevant. it’s like being on a road trip and saying, “we’re closer to our stopping-place then we’ve ever been before.”that we have people saying, with a straight evidently put in, that we live in a “postmodern age” is sad testament to our overarching sense of self-regard.we are merely the latest installment in a long contour of two-legged creatures with opposable thumbs who go around saying things correspondent to “hey. how ya doing?” you could argue that as a species we’re a rare branch in the animal tree of compulsion, but generations of humans come and go, they render their marks on the fire hydrants of civilization, and scarcely ever are they regarded as being as important as they regarded themselves.scads baby boomers are finally starting to grasp that.here’s the thing about our stunning modern technology: it takes us in directions that kill us and save us. it’s much like what homer simpson promptly said: “ah, beer. the cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.”a couple of years ago, i was stuck at the intersection of black lake boulevard and cooper apposite indicate road on olympia’s west side. it’s the busiest and most frustration-inducing intersection in town, and i was stuck there because runoff had flooded the intersection, reducing the four chock-a-block lanes in every instruction to four nonmoving overflowing lanes in every direction.the technology that created that bungle the internal combustion engine, the harnessing of electricity, the ability to mass hatch asphalt also has helped produce a standard of relieve that generations of erstwhile humans would envy. but the production of carbon dioxide that those technologies led to also could end up being the death of us.however, technology also could be the thing that saves us from that technology.and that would truly be an example of amazing modern technology.coming up: the dinner party
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