Trey Maynard: Journal 10

I disagree with point VI of the first essay, page 2. The point explains that there is an unrelenting march of progress that does not build upon itself, and instead discards previous progress in favor of the technological euphoria. The argument explains that this was common knowledge and that there was a hatred of the past. The book says: "This of course implied that every point a hatred of the past..." I disagree with all of this at a fundamental level. As someone who is in technology and has a great passion for it, I think that there is always the underlying reverence for the technology that our modern systems are built upon. The fact is, all software and hardware can be reduced to the humble 1 and 0, on and off. The underlying "language" known as binary, has been used in every single program and every single piece of hardware. The understanding that this runs all of our computing is not lost on people in the technosphere. It's humbling, in a sense. 

I have mixed feelings with point IX of the first essay. I don't believe that we have "accepted uncritically the belief that technology is only good; that it cannot serve evil." I think that people who don't want to think about the nefarious uses of technology decided to live in ignorance, but I refuse to believe that after the dropping of the atomic bombs people did not turn a critical eye to new developments in technology. Further, even now-a-days people are extremely critical of new technologies. Prime example of this is the push back against AI.