The wisdom of Joni Mitchell: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.” We're losing much now. We need perspective.
As a society we tend to treat new technologies and innovations as ‘miracles’ when they are nothing of the sort? We tend to treat those who get to brand themselves as the bringers of the New, New Thing (Micheal Lewis book) as a kind of priestly class, like the Greek gods of old. When all the while, it’s people working in the background priming the pumps and fitting the cogs who, little by little, make progress until something new comes into being. We are living in Oz, and men behind the curtain are just monkeys thumping their chests and throwing their feces about for others to pick up and dispose of.
Exactly. There are many people working incessantly on innovation. There is an abundance of innovation and creativity. What’s happened in this century is a concerted repression using the technologies that now intermediate between people who make things and their market. If a behemoth can’t monetise an invention, it kills it. We have to find the cracks.
As a society we tend to treat new technologies and innovations as ‘miracles’ when they are nothing of the sort? We tend to treat those who get to brand themselves as the bringers of the New, New Thing (Micheal Lewis book) as a kind of priestly class, like the Greek gods of old. When all the while, it’s people working in the background priming the pumps and fitting the cogs who, little by little, make progress until something new comes into being. We are living in Oz, and men behind the curtain are just monkeys thumping their chests and throwing their feces about for others to pick up and dispose of.
Exactly. There are many people working incessantly on innovation. There is an abundance of innovation and creativity. What’s happened in this century is a concerted repression using the technologies that now intermediate between people who make things and their market. If a behemoth can’t monetise an invention, it kills it. We have to find the cracks.