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I’m a geek of sorts. \u00a0I love computers, have owned many and, in fact, plan to buy another one soon. \u00a0Technological triumphalism, however, like most ecstatic extensions of an idea falls flat with me. \u00a0Technology will not solve our energy problem, at least not without substantial non-technological work such as conservation policies and actions, political barriers to fossil fuel use. \u00a0Technology does not make us smarter. \u00a0It gives us information quicker so that our intellectual reach expands but we still use our old mental processes.<\/p>\n
With that caveat let me say that technology is truly wonderful. \u00a0I just spent half an hour with Mark and Mary again, connecting Minnesota, Saudia Arabia and Singapore with not only voice, but video. \u00a0It was a chance to catch up on each other’s lives, to take the pulse of each other with visual feedback as well as verbal. \u00a0This astonishes me.<\/p>\n
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