I love technology, I always have. I got my first computer back in the early days of computing in 1980 (shit I’ve just dated myself) and was swept away by it from then on. It was the most basic machine compared to today, I was thrilled when I was able to program it to display “Hello World” on my small green and black monitor. I spent over 12 years since then working as a computer systems engineer and in the last few years as a freelance web designer leveraging the power of the web to help people in my community express their vision. My Macbook Pro is one of my most important material possessions. As I’ve walked my path and unfolded the practice of being a more conscious, more fully awake alive person I’ve met many like mined people who demonize technology and point to its evils including its destructive impact on the environment and society and its amplification of modern warfare. Many of them hope for or at least long for a change back to a simpler life. Some people I know even have expressed hopes that somehow our technology will be wiped out (maybe by a solar flare or something) and we’ll have to live without it. I am not one of those people.
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