[microsound] RIP Steve Jobs

[John Hopkins]

ei micros...

> Also the creation of the Atomic Bomb greatly contributed to the world of
> science and technology.

One should do a bit of research into the history of technology and it becomes 
abundantly clear the deep, profound, and fundamental relationship between (all) 
technological development and the military.  Technology is the way humans seek 
to optimize their survival and reproduction as a species into the future.

Who is 'worse,' the passive users of technology or those (engineers, designers, 
technocrats, policy wonks, entrepeneurs, etc) who seek to create new 
configurations?  Without consumers of technology there would be no wide-scaled 
extractives industries globally which produce and fill your machines with 
coltan, rare-earth metals, hydrocarbons, and which are constantly spawning 
brutal human conflict at every point where there are resources to be had. 
(Think Niger Delta, think Congo, think Middle East, etc, etc).

Are you using GPS today?  Oh, thank you, US Department of Defense for those 
satellites which guide me around on a daily basis. (it's possible to trace this 
reliance on military technologies throughout our lives, ad nauseum).  If you are 
living in the 'developed' world, you are totally implicated in this 
globe-spanning aristocracy of technology.  And if you aren't living there, then 
you are being shafted by China, Europe, the US, Brazil or some other country or 
organization of humanity in order for the technocrats to get what you have in 
order to strengthen their particular aristocracy of technology.

> (I know this sound provocative, but I care about how bad a person was and
> I'm not childishly saying he was THE EVIL.. Anyway, apologies.)

let (the consumer) who is without sin cast the first stone ...

jh



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John Hopkins
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http://neoscenes.net/
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