Writer's Block: Pros and Cons

[browngirl]

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The problem with questions about 'technology' is that they tend to define 'technology' both imprecisely and far too narrowly. Speech, fire, cloth and writing are all technologies which revolutionized human life when they were developed -- would any of the inevitable self-professed haters of technology want to be rid of those?

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[gingicat]

+eleventyzillion

[boosette.livejournal.com]

IDK, there are times when I wish bras would go away forever. :)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! But there are times I wish one particular bra could be made to discreetly vanish ... *poof*

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a rather bizarre, vague question. O_o

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The way technology has been used as a synonym for consumer electronics in recent years makes me cringe.

Yep, you speak wisdom.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Though I personally wouldn't count speech as technology. I think of that as a behavior. But the others sure are.

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

The printing press -- and the rise in literacy and knowledge it enabled, refrigeration -- and the rise in nutrition and decline in food poisoning it enabled, antibiotics, running water and the concomitant improvement in sanitation and reduction in disease ... much as I love my computer, it has to go behind some of those technologies.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you on the definition problem!!! On the other hand I suppose we've always done it - such as with "the arts". We seem to handily forget that today's tried and true is yesterdays dangerously modern and tomorrows tired and out of date, or if we're lucky classic. :)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the arts, and a whole bunch of technologies I'd not want to lose, from then lyre and panpipes to the flute and harp and harpsichord and piano and theremin and hammered dulcimer and tinwhistle and ocarina and pitch pipe and bassoon and digital recording ... paints (oil and tempera abd acryluc and watercolor, oh my) and brushes and stretched canvas ... fired ceramics, the potter's wheel ...