To what degree or level will technology and mechanization be enough? To me it is never a truly disturbing concept that human will build something and ultimately destroy ourselves, but I’m rethinking it now. As mentioned in “The Short Run (Early 2000s)”, we do not live in a completely free marketplace, and governmental coercion could support human populations in high style on the fruits of robot labor. However, it is going to be necessary that automation is restricted. We love to work and have the satisfaction of achievement, and that is essential. Purposelessness will be the one thing that makes us poor and eventually kills us. That is why governments such as the one of the States are terribly busy creating new jobs (the number of popes has doubled :)), and systems and policies are becoming more humanistic than before. People pay more attention to so-called “humanistic design” instead of look carefully into everyday’s “new high-tech”. On the other hand, the idea of becoming a immortal robot, caused by the hope that we want to live longer, is somewhat more widely heard, but notice that there are always going to be people who have more power (technology) and we are heavily affected by their behaviors if we ourselves become mechanical (more technically controllable). In that sense, living a better, longer life is more biologically or organically achievable, doable, and environmentally friendly.
Having read a bit of Orwell’s classic “1984”, if I want to relate it to something I’m reading at the moment, it would be the similarity between “the Big Brother” and “the monitoring or the ultimate surveillance society that Google may be leading us to”. There’s no surprise that Google wants something that Facebook has — an enormous database of personal information, which reminds me that although our bodies are becoming “digital” in a sense with the use of social networks such as Facebook (or someone called it “owned by Facebook” because Facebook uses user data to narrow markets of its clients, but that might just be tolerable… although relative law and improved versions of Internet rules become very desperately needed), but we do want to meet people face-to-face — we are not that wacky and nerdy yet, and we want to be real, and we want to trust others. Google glass is cool, but we do not really want that much device on us. Personally I think it is only a fashion choice, not so much a handy tool yet.
[just some thoughts, no reorganizing or anything…]
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