Despite our technological prowess—and it is phenomenal—we have precious little wisdom. The evidence suggests, further, that we live in an intellectually regressive age in which students in our colleges and universities try in vain to express themselves with hand gestures, repetitious sentence fragments, and shrunken vocabularies; they struggle with perfectly ordinary texts, unable to decipher [...]
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Literaure and Political Correctness
Posted in Literature, Technology on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Purpose of Technology
Posted in Technology on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Technology is the knack of arranging the world so that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
Michael Pollan on CAFOs
Posted in Food, Technology on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Our Decrepit Food Factories.”
The Hazard of Specialization
Posted in Education, Life, Technology on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first, and best known, hazard of the specialist system is that it produces specialists—people who are elaborately and expensively trained to do one thing. We get into absurdity very quickly here. There are, for instance, educators who have nothing to teach, communicators who have nothing to say, medical doctors skilled at expensive cures for [...]
Now Read This: Christine Rosen
Posted in Books and reading, Technology on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the end of reading, by Christine Rosen of The New Atlantis.
