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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Am I a Luddite?

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

I really think that the "damn fool computer" that we use every day can help us not only to civilization, but it is something we use almost everyday. We need a computer everyday, it helps us communicate and even save paper at times, it cuts down the amount of time we would take to accomplish a task, but while using this "damn fool computer," we never really remember that WE have created it, many people even come to believe that technology , and the "damn fool computer" is like a gift from god. God did not give us technology, god gave us the ingredients to make technology, but he left it to us to cook it. And so we did. But the computer isn't the only one that has deeply advanced into our generation, other technology like the "Euphio Project". The Euphio project was an invented,imaginary instrument that buys happiness. To add to my point, on pg 202, on paragraph 3, Lew states, "That's good-happiness by kilowatt, our motto will be "Buy your happiness the same way you buy you light"
To Conclude, I think that we use our computer so much, we always forget that we are the creators of the computer.

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