Technology + Human Evolution
This is a small excerpt from Wikipedia about the “Opposable Thumb”
“The most important factor leading to the habile hand (and its thumb) is the freeing of the hands from their walking requirements - still so crucial for apes today, which in its turn was one of the consequences of the gradual pithecanthropoid and anthropoid adoption of the erect bipedal walking gait - and the simultaneous development of a larger anthropoid brain in the later stages. The opposable thumb has helped the human species develop more accurate fine motor skills.”
So it’s because of the opposable thumb that we, the intelligent human race went on to develop accurate fine motor skills to play tetris on level 21 and to annoy each other with a plethora of lewd jokes, silly trivia and the occassional love proposition via text messaging. What’s better than an opposable thumb? two opposable thumbs to SMS faster!
I am the kind of person that technology has to nag in order for me to accept it. I got my mobile phone 3 years after almost everyone in India had one & 6 months after the scenic fishing villages in Norway got their connections. I still wonder how nerdy friends of mine ( * I can see some inflamed egos & emotions on the horizon ) manage to send in SMS’ with 100+ characters in one go. I have started hating characters like “Z” and “S” because of the silly keypad structure. If there is an easy way to type ( to delineate this, with the word ‘type’ is to level upgrade the mundane action of SMSing to a proper crime ) .. I personally like to use the verb “paw” to accurately describe the action of SMSing” ) those end key characters.
So basically I am not a huge fan of new technology/gizmos, and that explains why I probably wasn’t born in Japan, the Lord Almighty knew it all too well. So if “x” ain’t broke, don’t fix it… rather don’t invent “y” when “x” ain’t broke in the first place - there was a risk of that line sounding redneckish so I added in the algebraic variables. The markets these days are flooded with new mobile phones, graphic cards, teeny ipod accessories & Tom Cruise movies. My theory of unnecessary change applies to everything around us, even filmstars. Tom Cruise was fine being a normal actor during the TopGun days, not so much the performance he delivered, as the lack of unnecessary performances ( ala his theories on impulsive love and scientology, which made him normal.. so.. why, why screw it up with Mission Impossible N when everything was alright! C’mon Mr.Cruise it’s time to do a serious movie again, even if it’s raining frogs in a biblical climax with vehement lines like “Respect the C*ck. I am tired of watching movies where missles are used to kill 1 human target. Rambo’s bow and arrow was an outrageous combination, but it was worth the effort & guns were still okay for a human sized target, but! Missile(s) = One Human > doesn’t work, isn’t fair! Stop the carnage!
My tastes are all about the precious things in life…the “timeless” and “classique” ( yes the one with the ‘que’ at the end ). The one thing which can’t be re-made… that elusive combination of everything; so perfect it transcends traditional boundaries & requirements of “change”… Something which doesn’t need re-invention coupled with a new marketing strategy every year to sell it to thousands of eager consumers, buyers, fans & morons; something which has already evolved to a stable, well structured… independant state…
Something or someone like Jean Claude Van Damme.
[ this is when all the grey haired company directors stand up in one motion and ask all of the new readers to go their separate ways if they don’t like what they are reading. If you feel like staying in the room, warming the soft chair cushion, go ahead make a comment while you are testing your little theories of heat exchange ]
* if your emotions were hurt, you’ve pretty much accepted the fact that you are nerdy.
No Comments
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.