I watched the video and was amazed at the brilliance of the technology, that alone made it well worth posting - IMO.
The comments which followed got me into much deeper waters, and made me think, which isn't altogether a bad thing ... (usually).
Such a creative species, with such destructive tendencies -- what on earth are we thinking ?
Are we even thinking in any meaningful way at all ...?
It seems to me, that technology is merely an expression of our abilities - and awesome as our abilities are, we fail to examine, and learn from our activities.
Applied properly to geothermal energy, food production, health care and education, technology could support us all in lifestyles which could be in perfect harmony with our home planet.
As things are, we see the opposite results all around us, yet fail to change our course.
I'm not being political, in the usual sense, here; blaming others simply doesn't seem to work, and heaven knows, I/we, have done that long enough to see the inherent foolishness of projecting the blame.
Rather than trying to change others, I have to change myself -- and accept my own share of the blame ... that's the only thing I can, and should, attempt to control.
What makes me really mind-numbingly sad, is that we have created a generation of children who are bored by the world, and need the stimulation of television, when they are surrounded by incredible beauty which they do not see.
For me, this is a bitterly depressing indictment of our folly.
We have, by neglect and lack of any reasonable human philosophy, robbed our children of the sense of wonder which illuminated my early life, and is the most precious vestigial element of my later years.
Painful as they are, I need to be reminded of these things, as the days swirl past.
Thank you.
Rotifer.
