social and culture progressions into the future...
in the session we discussed the relationship between man and tecnics - especially our reliance on technology to define us as a species. it was agreed that as long as man has existed there has been a relentless pursuit to explore and further progress in sympatico with our technological advancements. through these prostheses we have established our identity and differentiated ourselves form the rest of the animal kingdom especially since the industrial revolution.
this time is especially important because at this point the introduction of machine and the production line exponentially accelerated our ability to shape the world around us through built form. the group agreed that there is a possibility that man has actually lost control of its path - that the machine has now taken the driving seat - advancing for the sake of advancement.
this notion resounded in many of our future scenarios becoming similar to many science fiction story lines - machine enslaving man - i.e the matrix or terminator...
for me personally i feel as though between the technological machine and the capitalist model in which we live - mankind has lost his way... there needs to be a movement back toward the low-tech world - where we become more in sync with what we consume and how it is produced... furthermore WHY we are producing it...
the machine in a sense has given even greater power to those that already wield it... only through learning to provide for ourselves can we free ourselves of the current burdens...
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