Ignorance

For La Luz project in Comm. Studio.

I feel disheartened by the effects technology has had on our society. We are entangling ourselves in reliance on immediate information. We have access to everything, but because of this we learn virtually nothing. Due to the ease obtaining information from the internet I feel we have lost our ability to legitimately learn and problem solve in the real world. For example, GPS omits the necessity of tackling all problems and acquiring new skills involved with simply navigating ourselves in the world. No need to communicate, use memory, read or understand. Simply do what the talking voice tells you. This piece is about technology encouraging ignorance in society. There is so much out there to experience, and we're looking at it all through a window instead of aspiring to truly participate in our own lives.

"Technology is bad for civilization. We are living in a manner that is unnatural. We are latently enslaved by our own ingenuity, and we have unknowingly constructed a simulated world. The benefits of technology are easy to point out (medicine, transportation, the ability to send text messages during Michael Jackson's funeral), but they do not compensate for the overall loss of humanity that is its inevitable consequence. As a species, we have never been less human than we are right now."

-Chuck Klosterman