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Digital technology is probably also art - but there is no life in it, because it is artificial in its essence.

In man-automatic machines, it is not even mechanics that is important, but the replacement of psychology with technology, the mechanization of the inner world, the transformation of mental life into a reaction-response characteristic of simple devices.

People with disabilities do not exist. Only the possibilities of technology are limited.


Hugh Harr is an American engineer and biophysicist. In his youth he was engaged in mountaineering and lost both legs - frostbite during the ascent.
Quote from Forbes on Nov 25, 2009: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1214/breakthroughs-mit-herr-robotics-...

For 30 years we have been treading water, we are all promised some breakthrough technologies, millions of jobs, and none of this. Stalin in 10 years turned peasant Russia into an industrial power and the second power of the world. Then in four years he won the hardest war, and then also restored the economy. Unemployment was eliminated, the largest scientific centers, tens of thousands of industrial enterprises were created, there was a constant increase in the welfare of Soviet citizens, not a handful of billionaires, but namely tens and hundreds of millions of people. For the first time in the world, a universal system of full-fledged secondary education and retraining of personnel was created. Even after putting housing into operation, we cannot catch up with the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union, more than 100 million square meters of housing were built per year, and 99.9% of this housing was free. Now it's the opposite.

"We are social beings who cannot completely ignore someone else's opinion of us." Of course, this behavior has evolved in the process of evolution. During the Paleolithic, it was necessary to maintain its status among other members of the tribe, as survival depended on it. In the twenty-first century, technology has used this ancient need to create lucrative behavioral dependencies. Let's take a look at the social media response button, which is closely related to the issue of recognition. If a lot of people click on the heart icon under your Instagram photo, you'll feel like you've hit your tribe, something that each of us instinctively craves. Of course, the flip side of this evolutionary factor is anxiety that occurs in the absence of a positive reaction. For the Paleolithic brain, this is a serious problem - and thus you get into the habit of constantly checking "important" information on the phone.

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Perhaps for the same reason I am in the business of putting up citations on this site.
If the owners of the site eliminate the "like" button, the audience will decrease. Unambiguously

We have built a new technological world, invented a bunch of the most incredible things, many of which have already become much smarter than modern people. We love to say wise phrases and quote great ones, but few people will be able to give out at least one interesting idea of their own production. Every day we draw knowledge from the Internet with large spoons, but at the same time we have not figured out our inner world...

Technology is an outrage against nature. Human whim. The thirst for perfection will drive people to the grave.

Russia is making tremendous efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, introducing low-carbon technologies, and switching to renewable energy sources. And as a result, a volcano wakes up in Kamchatka or in Indonesia and in a week nullifies all the efforts of mankind to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Humanity cannot prevent a volcanic eruption.

By virtue of my old-fashionedness, I will return to materialistic things. Who personally explain to me where what is going. And this is Marxism. I don't think what's going on speaks to a serious crisis of Western civilization. When we say she's flying into a wall, we're flying into the wall with her. Because we moved there and we stay there. And we need to move somewhere so as not to fly.
Such signs were before serious revolutionary cataclysms. Or perhaps the West has already entered a serious revolutionary situation. Revolution is a long process. This movement is leading to a serious reorganization of the world. This is due to the fact that modern technologies, the modern political structure of society does not meet the technologies that have appeared. The revolutionary process is underway, and above all it is taking place in the West. We are moving in the same direction as is dangerous and regrettable.
How can this end? Totalitarian societies. this is how revolutions always end.
It's like a huge wave going on, and there's foam ahead. The wave has not yet fallen, and the foam has already arrived. Who will survive here? Some states will not survive. We are dealing with the reorganization of the whole world. What place in all this we have to occupy - it is necessary to think. The train we got on in 1991 is not our train.

- Is this conversation one of them?

I have another democratic idol. This time a woman. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez. Commenting on the words of Sergei Lavrov about the situation around the Catalan separatists, she literally said the following: "There are no political prisoners in Spain, but there are political prisoners." Advanced technologies of Western propaganda - aerobatics!

Unfortunately, Russia's development without a conflict with the West is impossible. In general, in principle, there is no situation in which it would be possible to maintain good-neighborly relations, mutual understanding with the West and develop the country. In absolutely all areas, the interests of our development are in conflict with the interests of the West. Finance. They don't want us to be financially self-reliant. Production. They don't want anything to be produced here. They don't want technology to develop here. About meanings - God forbid at all. That would be nice for everyone to understand. And decide. either you sell the Motherland, or, if you see patriotism in a different way, anti-Kremlin, you must understand that there is no other way.

It is very close to me that Russian political science is shifting more and more towards Marxism. I have always held the view that there are objective processes in history besides personalities and certainly conspiracies. The crisis that is taking place in America is objective and quite predictable. Its essence is very simple: the system that was invented 200 years ago by smart, forward-thinking, talented slave owners has come to a state where it cannot meet the needs of today's American society. Different technologies, different ethnic composition, education - everything is different. Actually, this is the crisis.

The benefits of technology are available only to those with high purchasing power.