09 Dec '06 22:59>
Man has not become more wise or more intelligent than he was six thousand years ago, only more profuse and more active.
E.A.Poe
Technology is the application of knowledge, its acquirement only possible through the existence of social and economic structure.
We have already passed the age in which a society has been ready or able to encompass and utilise, beneficially, technological advancement through knowledge.
We passed this point when man first killed man, through belief in differing ideologies.
Technology and knowledge will grow at an unknowable rate. Man/Woman as individuals will have one life, one mind, one brain, one emotional experience. No different biology to that which man/woman had six thousand years ago.
Possibly the only hope we have is amalgamation of our static individualism with the growing embryo of applied knowledge. If not we will be swept away by the growing technological wave.
The situation is hopeless, but not serious. . .
E.A.Poe
Technology is the application of knowledge, its acquirement only possible through the existence of social and economic structure.
We have already passed the age in which a society has been ready or able to encompass and utilise, beneficially, technological advancement through knowledge.
We passed this point when man first killed man, through belief in differing ideologies.
Technology and knowledge will grow at an unknowable rate. Man/Woman as individuals will have one life, one mind, one brain, one emotional experience. No different biology to that which man/woman had six thousand years ago.
Possibly the only hope we have is amalgamation of our static individualism with the growing embryo of applied knowledge. If not we will be swept away by the growing technological wave.
The situation is hopeless, but not serious. . .