And the neo-luddite backlash looms ever nearer on the horizon.
I will, really, one day sooner or later, close the laptop, work on a farm, and write … on paper.
This and other useful meditations on the good and bad of technological ‘progress’ found on Kevin Kelly’s blog-to-become-book, The Technium.
Very funny and at the same time very puzzling. The title of your post is the best.
Feeling a little targeted, are we?
I saw this a while ago – the first thing that came to mind was Oso in Colombia, with his shiny, then-new iPhone, running around like a headless chicken trying to get it to work.
I’m actually polishing up my survival skills: baking bread, cooking from scratch, making clothing, repairing tools to be able to actually make it in the rural farm world. Actually, I´d move there, but with internet: that way I can always check which are the best chicken brees for my climate, and what food I should give them to have low cholesterol eggs. 😉
I’d be lying if I said that this was the first thing on the internet that has made me laugh in a long time… but it was very good.
He gives some perspective to our technological “problems”.
Well I’m still awe struck everyday by the four finger drag on my new macbook that allows me to see the desktop…I showed it off to one of my fellow teachers today and felt like I was doing a magic trick…ahh the small pleasures.
By the way, who do we have to sleep with to compete with the picture of the screencapture on the top of your blog? 😉
Man… so true. But this form better not take too long when submitting or I swear someone’s gonna get hurt.