Technology has been impacting human society more and more as the years pass. it has slowly replaced our need for contact with videos, games and social media. It has slowly replaced us in the work force, with auto-tellers, and assembly line automation. It has altered the need for intimate contact, with the over abundance of pornography and a hypersexualization of today's youth. As Bruce Sterling says in White Fungus, "The planet was saturated, networked from the bottom up like the mycelial threads of white wood rot. So we could access anything, and yet we could solve nothing" (Vandermeer 379).
This is what our over usage of technology will eventually bring us, we are already almost there as it is. Because of the loss of connection we had with the earth, we feel less desire to protect it as vigilantly as we should. Some children even think milk is made in the store and whipped cream comes from a can. This is the world they grow up in.
Works Cited
Vandermeer, Ann. ed. Steampunk III; Steampunk Revolution. pp. 377 - 87. Tachyon Publications. San Francisco, CA. 2012.
This is what our over usage of technology will eventually bring us, we are already almost there as it is. Because of the loss of connection we had with the earth, we feel less desire to protect it as vigilantly as we should. Some children even think milk is made in the store and whipped cream comes from a can. This is the world they grow up in.
Works Cited
Vandermeer, Ann. ed. Steampunk III; Steampunk Revolution. pp. 377 - 87. Tachyon Publications. San Francisco, CA. 2012.