We are about to become our machines . . . [we] will morph into machines.
- Rodney Brooks, MIT
GNR technologies (those that involve genetic engineering, nanotechnology and robotics) are some of the most interesting things to discuss and study.
The article I am reading had that quote and I wanted to share it. It made me smile.
I should say that the article has raised a lot of questions for me. It has to do with Euro-American ("Western") superiority and how the post-human era is romaticized as this all encompassing future with no bounds. Which is oblivious to the social realities that have plagued us for centuries.
Technology is our new Christianity. Technology is our new whiteness. Technology is our new masculinity. Its another facet of superiority.
A couple more great quotes:
We are . . . inclined to equate technology with civilization [itself ].
- Edward Wenk Jr
"For Americans, it is not the Christian God but technology that structures the American sense of power and revenge, the nations abstract sense of well-being, its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance."
- Joel Dinerstein
All this while I charge my iPod, load homework assignments onto my flash drive and read the news online.
- Rodney Brooks, MIT
GNR technologies (those that involve genetic engineering, nanotechnology and robotics) are some of the most interesting things to discuss and study.
The article I am reading had that quote and I wanted to share it. It made me smile.
I should say that the article has raised a lot of questions for me. It has to do with Euro-American ("Western") superiority and how the post-human era is romaticized as this all encompassing future with no bounds. Which is oblivious to the social realities that have plagued us for centuries.
Technology is our new Christianity. Technology is our new whiteness. Technology is our new masculinity. Its another facet of superiority.
A couple more great quotes:
We are . . . inclined to equate technology with civilization [itself ].
- Edward Wenk Jr
"For Americans, it is not the Christian God but technology that structures the American sense of power and revenge, the nations abstract sense of well-being, its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance."
- Joel Dinerstein
All this while I charge my iPod, load homework assignments onto my flash drive and read the news online.