Statement
Modern day medical technology is allowing us to live longer and recover faster. Sometimes a gadget is blatantly affixed to our bodies, and other times usually in a moment or result of crisis man made circuitry may be underneath or inside us. The impetus for such rapid advances in the sciences came about not from everyday want for a better life but from large military and corporate desires to keep ones nation ahead of its competitor. Being on the receiving end of this whirlwind, we are rapidly becoming dependent on the computer chip for much of our daily duties.
From the invention of the first candle to the mass-produced fluorescent tube, the extent to which humans can bend the laws of nature to their whim has proven exponential. Away from home in highly industrialized societies, the act of walking down a city street allows little rest for the mind as zeros and ones translated into commercial air and eye space penetrate our ocular and auditory organs (which were not built for such high powered/high frequency input in the first place). If such technological phenomenon was considered a future shock in the 1970s we have entered a state of future saturation in the twenty-first century.
Consumers question nothing as one piece of software falls obsolete to another, in duration shorter than a heart beat. Even using such a biological metaphor (blink of an eye, beat of the heart) sends out a wave of nostalgia while longing for times when pulsing screens did not buffer interpersonal emotional contact. Whether strapped down to hospital bed or simply watching television, we are fast running down the electron powered highway towards a universally wired world that is emotionally deafened.