From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 05:24:55 BST
I find these technology comments kind of unsettling.
I used share this attitude ...then I came across this
book ...ZMM....and it changed my whole approach to
technology. I came to peace with it in way... So I
just don't get some the comments lately and renamed
this thread to fully explore technology. Did ZMM
change/affect your views of technology at all?
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably
in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of
a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a
mountain or in the petals of a flower.
"Thus if the problem of technological hopelessness is
caused by absence of care, both by technologists and
antitechnologists; and if care and Quality are
external and internal aspects of the same thing, then
it follows logically that what really causes
technological hopelessness is absence of the
perception of Quality in technology by both
technologists and antitechnologists. Phaedrus' mad
pursuit of the rational, analytic and therefore
technological meaning of the word "Quality" was a
really a pursuit of the answer to whole problem of
technological hopelessness So it seems to me anyways."
Chapter 24
Erin
--- khaled Alkotob <khaledsa@juno.com> wrote:
> Case, Ant
>
> Your points were well presented. You both echoed the
> sentiment by Jerry
> Mander in his book:
> In the absence of the sacred: the failure of
> technology and the survival
> of the Indian nations.
>
> IMHO, the only benefit we've had over the last 200
> years is modern
> dentistry and medicine. As for the quality of life
> as a whole, and I mean
> the social aspect of us humans getting together to
> break bread, share a
> drink and sing a song, things have gone backward.
>
> That's why to this day, the most precious moments
> spent in an office, are
> around the water cooler.
>
> take care
>
> Khaled
>
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