tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post3107391525991420379..comments2023-07-30T05:57:48.256-04:00Comments on Gospel of the Living Dead: Mining AccidentsKPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-66419893995531426552010-04-09T18:58:21.097-04:002010-04-09T18:58:21.097-04:00Simple solution- Robot miners- oh but then there w...Simple solution- Robot miners- oh but then there will be some sort of upheaval from the unions and the scabs and, gasp the robots themselves, possibly the robot unions, who knows what that could bring-E.Pollarinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535128800512206405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-14462360618917887902010-04-09T13:35:18.418-04:002010-04-09T13:35:18.418-04:00well, my blaming SF was half-joking. What I mean i...well, my blaming SF was half-joking. What I mean is simple (though hard to fix) - something's wrong if we're so addicted to energy and to the free market, that it is more profitable for a company to put its workers in danger, and then pay a fine when they get hurt or killed - and therefore they do it. WTF? Oh, the market is immoral, but somehow it'll maximize profit and productivity, so that makes it okay, 'cause now we have all this STUFF? That's our excuse?KPaffenrothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-62189817308844058592010-04-09T13:27:08.862-04:002010-04-09T13:27:08.862-04:00Kim,
No, there are plenty of reasons as to why p...Kim, <br /><br />No, there are plenty of reasons as to why people will always feel as if the future they wanted, the future they were told about, through the media and their families and every other source of information that they consume, now more than ever, will always , always let them down or seem to never generate itself. <br /><br />Though I don't share Tolkein's ideology that technology, especially industrialization, or now post-industrialization in our worlds case, has ruined or demystified in some sense the wonders of the natural world, I can see where our information based technology or new media industries, the plastic and the keyboard, the touch screen and the nano tube has in fact, destroyed our theory of what the future is, or is now going to be. <br /><br />The revolution will not be measured in jet packs nor will it ever be televised- no sir, the revolution will be streamed in 3D HD to our brains, either continually plugged in through RFID body modification or some other "new" thing. Some other "new" way to dismiss the realities of the future, which are simply, the memories of the past, accelerated. <br /><br />We fight wars on video screens, like games that can be downloaded, we measure the lives we live in the abundance of or lack there of- in products and bits consumed. There is no more living off the grid with GPS or Google Maps. Unfortunately, the world is so small now- but at the same rate- maybe it allows for the role of gatekeeper to be torn down and nullified. I don't know. <br /><br />But good luck in trying to sort it out.E.Pollarinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535128800512206405noreply@blogger.com