Kevin Kelly talks about the Technium and William Paley finds proof of God in a watch.
If you find a watch, it implies the existence of a watchmaker. Quite, because watches don't make themselves. Life does, and this is also why at this point I think Kelly's Technium is an illusion. Sure, we'll all go out if the sun died, but machines stop much sooner than that. He argues, via the continued existence of flint arrowheads, that technological "species" never die. True, they don't, nor do they live.
At this stage technology is so far from any kind of self-sustainability it barely meets the Movement; Respiration; Sensitivity; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition (MRS GREN) criteria.
Yes, at this stage.
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Sunday, August 12
by
Hamish
on Sun 12 Aug 2007 07:37 AM NZST
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