Comments on: Andy Clark’s on annexing technology http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/10/31/andy-clarks-on-annexing-technology/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Nexus http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/10/31/andy-clarks-on-annexing-technology/#comment-444724 Nexus Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:21:51 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/10/31/andy-clarks-on-annexing-technology/#comment-444724 We are simply not able to be transformative at the increasing pace of change our own technology employs. All the dire dark words can come true (even via Kurzweil) if we are simply left behind, unable to integrate. Its nice to think we will enter a period of "grandfathering" where our technology will carry on our cultural imperatives and take care of us along the way, but just as each human generation now faces an interface gap, so will that gap exist between parent and technoid daughter, and the resulting missaprehension then becomes scary. I don't think we have changed much at all in 10,000 years, only our technology has, and so we may find ourselves alienated from our own creation. The best hope we have is to be left behind with comprehensible small benefits of our creation. We are simply not able to be transformative at the increasing pace of change our own technology employs. All the dire dark words can come true (even via Kurzweil) if we are simply left behind, unable to integrate.

Its nice to think we will enter a period of “grandfathering” where our technology will carry on our cultural imperatives and take care of us along the way, but just as each human generation now faces an interface gap, so will that gap exist between parent and technoid daughter, and the resulting missaprehension then becomes scary. I don’t think we have changed much at all in 10,000 years, only our technology has, and so we may find ourselves alienated from our own creation. The best hope we have is to be left behind with comprehensible small benefits of our creation.

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