Progress

April 29, 2010

The unconsciousness of innovations; to use or not to use

Will humans always remain technology centred now that we have tasted its fruits? Innovation is not an arbitrary element of the human being, for centuries we have been able to do without, and sometimes things even changed for the worse. It is only since the gradual emergence of the experimental-method, and the great concepts this yielded during the renaissance in Central-Europe, that the idea of constant progress got embedded in the western mind (John Gray, 2008). It seems that we all have eaten from the forbidden apple tree and are now expelled from our former ‘paradise’ where things could at least remain the same for an entire year.

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