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Scott Donohue
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October 8, 2006 - 09:10 PM
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i want to delete this post! maybe im dumb but i cant work it out!
This post was edited on: 2007-04-16 at 04:54 PM by: Donohue20
This post was edited on: 2007-04-16 at 04:56 PM by: Donohue20
This post was edited on: 2007-04-16 at 05:08 PM by: Donohue20
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Re: technology and ambivalence words then images
October 9, 2006 - 12:12 PM
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This thread is being moved to the Technology and Innovation board, where it should be...
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Re: technology and ambivalence words then images
October 10, 2006 - 01:29 PM
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Donohue20 wrote:
To think about technology holistically is too much for the mind to handle. Positive and negative feelings collide, simultaneously drawing emotion in opposite directions.
Often technology is boken down into 'good' and 'bad', leaving confused spaces inbetween. Technology allows me to write this message, and i am thankful for that, but it also creates the potential for horrific acts. An enormous spectrum of joy and despair. It is this ambivalence that interests me in my art.
I want fellow members of TIG to write there positive and negative opinions about our use of technology. I will then use the comments posted as fuel for new work, which I will then post on the site.
What ever you opinion be it positive or critical or a blend of both. I would like to hear it.
Scott,
i will be brief.
Technology, in my opinion, cannot and is not bad. What is bad is our intention to use it for a good or bad cause.
As you know humans are not necessarily good-natured and therefore their beliefs and attitudes might lead to noxious and harmful acts, using that very technology,which at the heart of its creator or inventor, was never meant to be used in any particularly bad way.
Even the commonly regarded evil of our times - nuclear power - when invented was not meant to be used as it is by modern politicians.
In brief, it is our intentions that tend to be bad rather than the technology itself.
H.
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Re: technology and ambivalence words then images
October 28, 2006 - 06:12 PM
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Technology is NEUTRAL.
However, it has the POTENTIAL to be good or bad.
The user makes it good or bad.
Unfortunately, the majority of technologies are humans and as someone else already alluded to, humans are simple simple beings... with way too many bent on self-gratification.
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