Summer is here and its languid air leaves me with a desire to lay back and do nothing. That I have not really worked for two years is a selfish luxury. I have been able to spend the years idling away at the passions of my choosing, but that luxury is soon to expire. I have a dissertation to perform. I say perform because of the acts and measures one must follow in its execution. It is a dance to learn the style of and perform in front of a panel of judges. At the least, one can choose the genre, and perhaps my genre is well suited to me. Thoreau advised, "Draw as near the channel in which your life flows." I find that this channel is about how we must consider technology. I am pursuing a degree in Education—this may have been a misstep, for I am principally interested in our relationship with technology. The sign of life is, as Heidegger observed, the other things that exist in the world, made by other beings—one need not ever see another human and one could ...
A look into how technology affects our lives from a philosophical, social, and fictional perspective.