One of the most ancient forms of spirituality is animism. The tenet of animism is that, in addition to all living beings, also objects and natural phenomena have a soul, a vital principle. Even if modern science has completely disproved any foundation for animism, the majority of people “believes”, even though at a subconscious level. There are people who talk to their car, or with their computer. There are people who assign to objects a will of their own, saying, for example, “my radio doesn’t want to tune in on that station”. People expect objects, at least the more complicated ones, to behave in an “intelligent” manner, or at least “intelligible”; they compare objects to pets: a dog’s behavior, for example, may be puzzling at times, but most of the times we can understand the reasons behind its actions.
Modern technology has exasperated this, but at the same time pushing it to the back of our brains: a few decades ago a phone was only a kind of “voice pipe”, whereas now we expect to be able to use one to play, write, draw… and speak, if we must.
All this to say that, just maybe, we expect a clock to do something more than tell the time. To have some “smart” function, a kind of thought process. To interact with its environment…
Inspired by Rob Faludi
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
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Our philosphy
We are what we think.
We are tired of dumb objects, of inanimate pieces, of single-function products.
We believe in elegance and beauty.
We are the the ideas we share, not the ones we keep secret.
We want to interact intelligently with everything we have around us, because this is our way of life: fast, mobile, parallel.
We are extreme, but willing to listen.
We believe that job society is finished. We believe interaction society has started.
We are the evolution of the species. We are the new men with the club and our club is irony.
We are immersed in technology, but we are not slaves, we are interpreters.
We are the ones that when someone say "Stop daydreaming", answer "You told me to stop breathing".
We are proud of our past, but we believe and think and live in the future.
We are constantly changing, because the ability to adapt to our time is what characterizes us.
We are a mass, not an elite. It may not look like it, because we are widespread, not concentrated.
You have to observe from above to understand us.
We would like only one epitaph: "They had every right to teach, because they spent all their time learning".
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