Technology

When it comes to food, I am more regressive than progressive. I believe that my food should be recognizable as food. It should come from a natural source. I have that luxury. I live in the United States, where food choices abound, and viable agricultural land makes up much of the country. Other countries are less fortunate. People in a resource-poor nation may welcome food in whatever form it takes...even if that form is "shmeat."  Read More »

Today, the economics/government teacher brought to our attention just how mythical our belief in privacy and security has been in the states.  Read More »

As a whole, we have become overly dependant on not just fossil fuels but on technology and creature comforts these days. Everytime you turn around there is a new device intended to make life easier, or limit how much effort you'd actually have to put into a task.  Read More »

Are we dependent upon technology? I constantly find myself sitting next to someone, and texting at the same time. Is this becoming an issue? People always having their cell phones on them at all times, and then if the battery goes dead and you're not near a charger you freak out?  Read More »

Recently I went about two days without my computer and I have to say it was pretty good. Without a computer I could not check my stocks, email, news, charge my ipod(which had zero battery life during this time), or watch any of the movies and shows I had on my hard drive. The time I would usually devote to my PC I spent reading, writing, and doing my homework.  Read More »

To debate the existence of evolution in one form or another would be sheer idiocy to such a degree that it would be impossible. Namely because any person holding a belief that evolution does not occur would not have undergone the process of change which leads one from conception to birth to language acquisition. So we can safely take evolution as a fact.  Read More »

Some would say that it's our technology that enslaves us. It may be more accurate to argue that it's our technology which gives us the best chance at attaining freedom. Not just any form of freedom, but the transcendent sort of freedom which is the object of many spiritual and religious teachings. The sort of transcendence which we hope will come with death.  Read More »

(this blog entry was written last week but wasn't submitted because I was having Internet issues. You'll see why this is ironic.)  Read More »