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    We are waking up to the fact that our gods are dead, and have been replaced with our own creations. From the perspective of creations, if God was simply a mode of communicating a spiritual energy or force we then manifested into religion, one could easily surmise that it was fate that brought us to create something as powerful and as all knowing as the Internet for us to worship. The Internet is by far our greatest invention, and our greatest abomination.

    The genie has been let out of the bottle. I am not presenting a snowball effect type argument; simply an observation on our relationship and addiction to ourselves via the Internet and social media has changed the human soul. We truly have become dependent on our screens. The symbiotic relationship we developed with our digital worlds draws parallels to Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein and his abomination. He created life and loathed what he had done. That abuse and loathing of the creation led to his own demise.


    Are we meant to play God?


     Computers and smart phones are by leaps and bounds one of our most impressive inventions. So great in fact that we fear the power and greatness might surpass even our own capabilities. Machines are already far more competent at tasks that serve us than we are. You ever try to use a map? A computer could easily out-type me. I think my best was 111 words a minute in my hey-day in Mrs. Reinhardt's 7th grade computer class. 

    Our Monster-Child-Abomination might kill us. Being a child of the cyber age in the Wild West of the Internet of the 2000's, I have never known a world without the Internet, or screens. I fear that our symbiosis with technology might, or already has, evolved into a dependency. Although we are smart enough to build these machines, we have no idea what consciousness, or indeed the human soul consists of. If we cannot understand that, then we have no idea when or how a creation will achieve what we deem is "humanity". 

    Even as Orwellian visions of destruction fill our heads with dismal predictions and omens of becoming slaves to our own devices, we are continuing to progress at an unimaginable rate; making life the easiest it has ever been here in the United States. Progress will not halt, nor should it. Our only purpose really in life is to keep moving forward, toward our never ending goal of understanding ourselves. Our technology has always served us and shaped us. All we can do is hope that we can continue to catch lightning in a bottle, and continue on our march through time.


stay safe,


love


-------jdw


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