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I've thought long and hard about all of these questions, and I won't spend my time reviewing my logic here. But it hangs on this: technology is never merely a "tool." I find that far too restrictive a way of looking at it. It is a frame, a space, an environment. I have seen the effects of tv (bad enough) the internet (awful) the "smart" phone (yet worse) and the beginnings of SI (satanic intelligence), and I what I see is not good. The rate of change itself is already debilitatingly, dizzyingly damaging. The power went out last weekend in my suburban neighborhood for about five hours, and the weather was good. For the first time in ages all the kids were out, skating, biking, laughing, frisbeeing, you name it. Maybe we can come up with some sort of compromise where we get to use all the electronica we want for one day a week. After that, lights out. |