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This quote begins a 10 page paper that examines
our reliance on technology and our value of
philosophy. The discussion looks at the
technocracy movement of the 30's, yet strikes a
more moderate resolution than the quote suggests.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBptech.doc.
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Decades ago one of the popular Beatles songs was "All We Need Is Love." We have either "come a long way, baby", or someone has
forgotten the song. Now the question become should technology take the place of philosophy. The irony, of course this is a philosophical question - or is it?
In recent times we have seen the emergence of a new polarization--anti-technology vs. pro-technology, Luddite vs. techie. The neo-Luddites dream of people leaving technology behind
and advancing into a future that looks--well, looks a lot like the past. The techies dream of artificial intelligence--computers so brilliant that they can advance and leave people behind.
Along with this goes a lot of argument--much of it useless hyperbole-about whether technology is good or bad, destroyer or savior. What we really need to do, rather than
take sides in any such simplistic fistfights, is to understand how inseparable technological change is from human evolution. Technology is us (Anderson ppg) - or is it?
Canadian psychologist Merlin Donald (Origins of the Modern Mind 1991), argues that the human species has evolved by developing new "systems of representation,"
and that at each stage--as people invent new ways to communicate and manage information-we become in fact a different species. The first big jump, he says, was the invention of
mimicry. Then came speech, then--much later--writing. We are now in the midst of another such transition, and it is literally changing the way we think: "The growth of the external
memory system," he says, "has now so far outpaced biological memory that it is no exaggeration to say that we are permanently wedded to our great invention, in a cognitive
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