Kristopher Koppel
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Kristopher Koppel commented on Re: How will this age be remembered? on April 7, 2008, 11:00 PM
I disagree with Mr. Collins. There are many out there who believe that technology will save us all. That it is the magic elixir that will cure all that ails us. The fact is that technology is progressing much faster than our existing social structure. We in large, are still angry, fearful apes spending the majority of our efforts and resources creating ever more efficient ways of harming one another. Many might think of our last century as a renaissance era where science and rationalism had begun to prevail over religion and superstition. Science indeed continues to rise each year to a new zenith. However for all its virtues, it has played a large part in one of the most violent and bloody centuries in all of human history. Science itself is not to blame, It is merely a tool and thus is devoid of malice. The people who pervert it for their own means are the true culprits.The pursuit of power and wealth are usually always to blame for the blood. Until we as a people begin to pull ourselves kicking and screaming into the light, where we see the error of our ways, we will continue to use technology as a double agent. Our salvation will not be in a box full of ones and zeros. It will come when we all look into the mirror and see what me must do to mature as individuals and as a global society. At that point and only at that point will technology serve as a useful tool to bring us together in a common and just goal.
Kristopher Koppel commented on Re: How will this age be remembered? on April 8, 2008, 3:00 AM
I disagree with Mr. Collins. There are many out there who believe that technology will save us all. That it is the magic elixir that will cure all that ails us. The fact is that technology is progressing much faster than our existing social structure. We in large, are still angry, fearful apes spending the majority of our efforts and resources creating ever more efficient ways of harming one another. Many might think of our last century as a renaissance era where science and rationalism had begun to prevail over religion and superstition. Science indeed continues to rise each year to a new zenith. However for all its virtues, it has played a large part in one of the most violent and bloody centuries in all of human history. Science itself is not to blame, It is merely a tool and thus is devoid of malice. The people who pervert it for their own means are the true culprits.The pursuit of power and wealth are usually always to blame for the blood. Until we as a people begin to pull ourselves kicking and screaming into the light, where we see the error of our ways, we will continue to use technology as a double agent. Our salvation will not be in a box full of ones and zeros. It will come when we all look into the mirror and see what me must do to mature as individuals and as a global society. At that point and only at that point will technology serve as a useful tool to bring us together in a common and just goal.