I am incapable of understanding what a human is without tools and recorded/written language (another tool). I guess I need HALP but since ever since my early education in art and art history made it clear that technologies and art are reciprocal influences on each other and have been throughout history, it got me deeper and deeper into technology. My heroes were the Renaissance artists who invented perspective and combined painting with architecture.
Hi Jon - I am a recovering technology addict as well. I started on an Atari 800 with 16kb of memory, and to my great shame - I still have that same computer in a trunk, like a technological albatross that has me tied to the mast (to mix...metaphors?).
I too find that technology eventually becomes an endless treadmill of new capabilities, new abilities and the next big thing. (Claude Code anyone?). I also struggle with aging, and the overwhelming truth that many of my brain cells are stuffed full with song lyrics from the 1970’s (Chevy Van by Sammy Johns for one).
My greatest joy comes from putting the phone down, taking the air pods out and getting out in the world. Thank you for having the courage to step forward. The first step is the hardest!
I am incapable of understanding what a human is without tools and recorded/written language (another tool). I guess I need HALP but since ever since my early education in art and art history made it clear that technologies and art are reciprocal influences on each other and have been throughout history, it got me deeper and deeper into technology. My heroes were the Renaissance artists who invented perspective and combined painting with architecture.
Hi Jon - I am a recovering technology addict as well. I started on an Atari 800 with 16kb of memory, and to my great shame - I still have that same computer in a trunk, like a technological albatross that has me tied to the mast (to mix...metaphors?).
I too find that technology eventually becomes an endless treadmill of new capabilities, new abilities and the next big thing. (Claude Code anyone?). I also struggle with aging, and the overwhelming truth that many of my brain cells are stuffed full with song lyrics from the 1970’s (Chevy Van by Sammy Johns for one).
My greatest joy comes from putting the phone down, taking the air pods out and getting out in the world. Thank you for having the courage to step forward. The first step is the hardest!
I like Odyssey metaphors, mixed or otherwise :) Though I tend to think of tech as the Siren song and ethical discipline as what ties us to the mast.