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COMPUTER
Nexus for netting information.
Today’s greatest threat to tradition.
Device for ‘programming’ everything.
What has given rise to powerful nerds.
Obliterator of time-honored plodding.
Inevitable, insidious triumphs of
‘smaller’.
Facilitator for storing, filing and
retrieving quickly.
Ever improving means for accessing and
utilizing the ‘unseen’.
What is linking the past with the future to
produce a dynamic ‘now’.
Fomenter of anarchy encouraged by the ease
of ‘filling buckets with lard’.
- Perhaps the ‘real world’ is slowly
being abandoned by ‘heads’ stalking through ‘fields of
fluff’.
- Perhaps ‘progress’ should not be
‘measured’ by problems solved but accomplishments savored.
- Perhaps in the dark realms of ‘cyber
space’ you can witness the clash of autonomy with intrepid
‘intruders’.
- Perhaps emerging generations are
becoming habituated to short bytes which generate short
attention spans.
- Perhaps expectation so dominates minds
entranced with what is ‘popping up’ next that ‘screen
junkies’ experience lives of restless frustration … they
never ‘arrive’.
- Perhaps we ignore the irony of gaining
control over many facets of our lives while relinquishing
our autonomy to outside influences; perhaps informed
decision-making is becoming muddled.
- Perhaps instant access to information
presents responsibilities and accountabilities which demand
action; perhaps unprecedented global integration is slowly
eradicating boundaries; perhaps zealous xenophobia which
fosters ignorance and diatribes will disappear … forever.
- Perhaps speedy transport has
undermined people’s appreciation of architecture, gardens
and neighbors’ accomplishments; perhaps the computer,
similarly, has been compelling users to skim through data
and images rapidly; perhaps ‘edifying substance’ and
inspiration are foolishly ignored.
- Perhaps today’s intelligentsia are
elated with their sense of omniscience engendered by
extraordinary facility with data; perhaps they smugly ignore
what makes them unique: Abilities to reflect, appreciate
beauty and experience joy; perhaps arrogance will always
compel egos to depend on themselves for answers; perhaps
they will tragically never find Purpose.
- Perhaps engaging tactile skills in the
past allowed for planning and reflection … progress slowly
measured and appreciated; perhaps dismissing this experience
for the sake of expediency risks the loss of opportunities
for community congeniality, self-satisfaction and developing
disciplines: Perspective, flexibility, perseverance … to
name a few.
ESSAY
ON COMPUTER by EDWIN
O’SHEA
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