Perhaps the only topic that I am truly qualified to comment on is technology. I have been a shy participant in the field and have come to regard it as a panacea. Something in between here and some alternative state which we still can not quantify nor assimilate.
We use technology to bound ourselves to the possibility of the other possibility. And that is what tickles us the most about technology, that is, that it is secretly aligned with another version of our condition which we still can not phantom.
The reality is perhaps a bit more cruel, though figuratively speaking anything can be true, there appears to be more of a philosophical element in technology than some inarticulate future human expectation. Technology is for instance agnostic, it is secular, it has as its core a seemingly apolitical and amoral character. Yet those very constructs betray an insane ritualism for a sterile mechanical complexity of what is human. It is as if we, when creating technology, were saying to ourselves, “I want to look away from humanity.” And in the process of looking away the world we see is a cold, inanimate perfection that won’t react to our emotions.
There seems to be some kind of madness in technology, it is as if it wanted to kill it and us with it. Technology aims to secularize its services register so that it can serve any master, but in the end its very secularity makes championing it a neutral aspiration. When we pin our hopes on technology we are still aware that it is not fundamental to our being that it merely serves a particular disposition of our daily being, and that it marches forward regardless of the altercations of the very being that creates it. In summary judgment technology contrives its own sterility to convince us of its neutrality so that we, and that is any of us, will promote it regardless of our primary cause.
For technology and even for us, the supra essence is more important than the individual expression of it.
If that is the case then equally is the case that like any self contrived cause, that is a cause that embarks in being greater than the humanity it serves, it will invariably become passé. Technology ought be looked at within the framework of its emotive environment, any humanity that is able to arrest its emotive nature should have fairly advance technology. Equally it should also, as it advances the technology, advance its own demise.
There are always those disruptive elements. Imagine for instance how fast telepathy would kill Instant Messaging. (As an aside I should ally the concerns of those of you that would think the world would go mad if we possessed the ability to read each others minds; that is however not true, constructively, reading each others minds would simply show us how human, and not unique we all are; thus bringing forward common empathy.)
Technology is thus on par with say religion that ended with the Inquisition; Or with Capitalism that ended when the cold war came to an abrupt halt; Or romanticism that did not survive the romantics. The signs are obvious, anything that commences to spend more of its energy of desire in aims that define security, indoctrination, self adhesive morality, and lamentations of the difficulties of self preservation, is bound to be on demise row.
Much to the comfort of many: The state of the reactionaries is evidence of their sure extinction.
Technology is thus an interesting but not a lasting thing. It should not be expected in any long term future composition of humanity, we may get as far as quantum computers, it can take a thousand years for philosophies to come to life, evolve, mature and die. But the relevant thing is that technology while seemingly something solid state, it is in fact no more than an highly contagious and highly applicable philosophy, and it should be treated as such.
It is worthy of note that no future has ever been anticipated by prior civilizations. The Romans, Mayans, Incas, Aztecs, Greeks, Assyrians, Persians, Mongols, Egyptians, etc, all shared one thing in common with today’s scientific fever, they thought that they were the matured, the chosen, and the future. A logical conclusion since the aspect ratio of comprehension within those civilizations was self-adhesive.
