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OVER THE TOP Future Tech ALL TECHNOLOGY, NO FUTURE No matter how much tech we have, the future is only as bright as we want it to be Words by Neal Romanek
on’t get me wrong. I love technology. Like it or not, we humans are designed for technology and technology is
designed for us. Millions of years ago, the nimble fingers of our ancestors led to the creation of increasingly sophisticated tools. And using those tools affected how we evolved, which then affected how we made our tools, which in turn affected how we evolved, etc. In other words, there’s no such thing as a Luddite. If you’re a human, you’re a tech-head. We have some really powerful technologies available to us now. With the devices in our pockets, we can access, more or less, all the world’s knowledge. We can communicate with just about anyone on Earth – and do it face to face. We carry around more computing power than existed in all of NASA a generation ago. SO WHAT DO WE USE THIS AMAZING TECH FOR? Well, me, I look at cat videos. I also get into angry arguments with people about things I know little about. I enjoy flipping through news sites, looking for things to be outraged about. I check emails constantly, just in case someone needs me to defuse a bomb or join Danny Ocean’s new heist. I mean that’s not all. I also watch/listen to lectures by Yale professors on YouTube. I’ve been watching some great new comedy series on Netflix and am working my through the glorious BFI catalogue. I get to FaceTime my family thousands of miles away in the US. I automatically log my workouts. I take videos and stills and record a lot of interviews for this magazine. But, call me an ingrate, I still feel like there’s something missing.
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