Technology monkeys
They are always “chasing the latest trend”. The main thing is “up to date”. The new iPhone must shine.
Technology monkeys.
What used to be jewellery is now technology. The old “primate fuss”, one “adorns oneself with technology”.
I’m not entirely innocent of that either.
Sometimes I’m also a little “Mr. Gadget”. But not everything new is good.
I’m thinking of phones with a built-in battery. Or in general this “throwaway mentality”.
I still have a Zippo at home. Simple, because I can maintain it myself and don’t have to replace it all the time.
My personal thinking.
Or many new projects where I wonder if they make sense at all.
And I have a little idea, as a former computer scientist. But even the opinions in computer science are divided.
But I call many people “technology monkeys”. It’s a bit pejorative, but what the heck. I must struggle with the problem myself.
Maybe that’s some old “A-Team” logic in my head, along the lines of: “I love when it works”.
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I have the instinct myself, and I have no problem sometimes seeing myself as a “monkey”.
Technology, the new “magnificent object”.
Although I often see projects fail due to complexity. People overestimate their minds. In the end, you and I only have a “monkey brain”.
That’s just the way it is.
Many projects just seem to me as if “for the sake of technology”. I don’t know if that’s the “highly intellectual thinking”.
Personally, I don’t think much of it.
But I’m also more withdrawn.
You can also condemn a lot of technology or science. Nothing prevents you from doing so. Perhaps it “grows with the criticism”.
We don’t know.
I often look at the world and think of my “technology monkey part”.
Ecology is always important to me.
Maybe society will “mature at some point”, that’s what I would like to see.
Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s good.
(Translated from German using Office365)
