Thursday, March 19, 2009

Luddites

I would have to agree with Vonnegut, at least in part. However I can't help but love that "damn fool computer". I can definitely imagine what a computer can become. One day, computers and techno machinery are going to run our life. The Euphio for example was able to create artificial happiness. What I find hard to imagine is life with out electronics. No more yahoo answers doing your math. No more spell check. There was a time when you had to do ALL of your homework without a computer or a calculator. A time when you had to walk to a library to get information when now, the internet can do the same thing. But even now, you have to find your own happiness. In the Euphio question, there was a machine to give you happiness. For machine to run your life means that you are then living less of it. Happiness, however, is one thing that should never been done by a machine. Happiness is one thing that you have to be alive to experience. No machine should ever experience happiness for you.

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