Comments on: Techno-fascism? http://www.randomwire.com/2006/05/01/techno-fascism/ life on the edge of the digital extreme Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David http://www.randomwire.com/2006/05/01/techno-fascism/#comment-38938 David Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:33:09 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/05/01/techno-fascism/#comment-38938 Hi Henry, glad someone replied to this even if it is over 2 years since I posted it!<br><br>If anything it appears the technological onslaught continues to accelerate even faster than before - I'm still divided about the future implications of this as the positive and negative effects are a very mixed bag.<br><br>To be honest I don't see any way out of it, short of a catastophic failure of some sort. As part of this revolution I'm wouldn't really want that either but certainly some consideration needs to be given to the man-machine dependance. Hi Henry, glad someone replied to this even if it is over 2 years since I posted it!

If anything it appears the technological onslaught continues to accelerate even faster than before - I'm still divided about the future implications of this as the positive and negative effects are a very mixed bag.

To be honest I don't see any way out of it, short of a catastophic failure of some sort. As part of this revolution I'm wouldn't really want that either but certainly some consideration needs to be given to the man-machine dependance.

]]> By: Henry Swanson http://www.randomwire.com/2006/05/01/techno-fascism/#comment-38937 Henry Swanson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:54:27 +0000 http://www.randomwire.com/2006/05/01/techno-fascism/#comment-38937 That nobody has posted anything in response to your question since '06 should tell you at least a little about our Western relationship to technology. That we've willingly brought the techno-ticket (or at least been sold the idea that Tech = Good) and now we're stuck on the ride. I'm not really sure we would even want to jump off at this late stage - even if we knew how.<br><br>Perhaps the mere fact that things like the Internet even exist, is already a sign that we've all strayed a little too far from the Garden.<br><br>Hmmm. Perhaps the need to switch off the tech, is really the evolutionary urge to switch off our own selfish egos for good..<br><br>Take it easy<br><br>Henry<br><br>PS. Small note to the shiny happy coldplay metrosexual hipster latte crowd: your new mobile phone is a lifeless lump of toxic plastic made in a Chinese sweatshop, not a social movement. That nobody has posted anything in response to your question since '06 should tell you at least a little about our Western relationship to technology. That we've willingly brought the techno-ticket (or at least been sold the idea that Tech = Good) and now we're stuck on the ride. I'm not really sure we would even want to jump off at this late stage - even if we knew how.

Perhaps the mere fact that things like the Internet even exist, is already a sign that we've all strayed a little too far from the Garden.

Hmmm. Perhaps the need to switch off the tech, is really the evolutionary urge to switch off our own selfish egos for good..

Take it easy

Henry

PS. Small note to the shiny happy coldplay metrosexual hipster latte crowd: your new mobile phone is a lifeless lump of toxic plastic made in a Chinese sweatshop, not a social movement.

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