Technology Analysis Overview

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Published on November 17, 2008 12:06:46 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz3FT_5dtFE

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This is my second response to comments left on my "You Decide" video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vjPIUOV9k

This time the question was from qkholster
http://www.youtube.com/qkholster

"What are your thoughts on exponential growth trends in technology and how humans will ultimately be affected by this in the future?"

I didn't feel that I could answer this question directly, hence this introductory video where I attempt to explain my views on the concept of technology.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:

I've come to a realization lately about technology. But first I'll try to give a little background; I started my analysis by first attempting to define technology. I always assume that defining a complex concept like this is generally impossible, but like everything else there is an event horizon of comprehension that can gradually be approached.

Usually when I'm thinking about abstract things like this I find my intellectual process will penetrate the problem in phases, typically the deeper I go the denser and more intricate the structure becomes. In other words it requires increasingly more focus and energy to decode and keep track of the various elements of the design. I would describe this progression as logarithmic or exponential.

One characteristic is that while realizations made early on are not necessarily wrong, they are often retroactively altered by new insight gained from a deeper analysis, occasionally becoming unrecognizable in context to the previous thought pattern. Another interesting result is that sometimes the answers you arrive at seem idiotically simple in respect to the complexity of the original question.

Technology is random mutation. From a human perspective there are really only two forces at work in the known universe, order and chaos. From a universal perspective it's all chaos, but consciousness prevents us from viewing these things objectively. As always we see what we want to see. The same can be said for technology.

As proof of this statement I would ask the following question: Name one technology that we have complete control over?

In theory technology is our creation, therefore it should be entirely under our control at all times, it should always do exactly, and only, what it is intended to do, and never under any circumstances should it impede or oppose us. The reality is of course far more ambiguous than that. Hundreds of thousands of people are arbitrarily sickened, maimed or killed every year because of it.

Technology is not under our control, far from it. We coexist with technology, just like we coexist with everything else. We can no more create it than we can destroy it. We assume that technology is under our control, but you can't control what you don't understand. And we don't understand technology because we don't understand ourselves, or more specifically our motivations.