Scott Rubush is far from impressed with all this technology and I, for one, am greatly relieved that, at long last, somebody has had the guts to speak the truth.
“technology does little to change the quality of life…”
Says Scott and…
“Hell, I live in the 21st century in one of the wealthiest cities on earth, and I still had to roll my arse out of bed this morning and go to work—at a computer terminal, no less”
How right he is. I, too, am deeply nostalgic for the days when I could rise from my rat-infested bed of straw in the middle of the night to milk a goat, bury a couple of my children and vainly try to dig a turnip out of the frozen soil with rudimentary hand-tools. Those were the days when we had real quality of life.
After all, what has technology ever done for us, eh?
Well, I suppose there’s the steam engine, the lathe, penicillin, vaccines and manned flight.
But, apart from those things, what has technology ever done for us, eh?
Okay, well, there’s electricity, the internal combustion engine, steel, oil fractionating, synthetic fabrics, rubber galvanisation, intensive farming and antibiotics.
But, all that aside, what has technology ever actually done for us, eh?
And I suppose there’s radio, radar, cine film, pasteurisation, central heating, the lightbulb, plastics, telecommunications, the laser, microwaves, invitro fertilisation, the integrated circuit, computers and, of course, the Internet.
So apart from steam engine, the lathe, penicillin, vaccines, manned flight, electricity, the internal combustion engine, steel, oil fractionating, synthetic fabrics, rubber galvanisation, intensive farming, antibiotics, radio, radar, cine film, pasteurisation, central heating, the lightbulb, plastics, telecommunications, the laser, microwaves, invitro fertilisation, the integrated circuit, computers and, of course, the Internet…WHAT HAS TECHNOLOGY EVER ACTUALLY DONE FOR US, EH??
