Comments on: Internet garbage dump? What Weizenbaum really said http://www.wordyard.com/2008/03/26/weizenbaum-quote/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 12 May 2008 05:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Alan http://www.wordyard.com/2008/03/26/weizenbaum-quote/#comment-2796 Alan Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:06:36 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/03/26/weizenbaum-quote/#comment-2796 Scott, look at this link to the “Davos Open Forum 2008 - Virtual Worlds - Fiction or Reality?” I wondered if Joseph Weizenbaum understands one of the deepest mysteries of all time. Technological progress quietly places an invisible veil between the inevitable progress that it presents to our forward striving and that, which might be called our archetypal relationship to the essential human being and the natural world. http://youtube.com/watch?v=E198IynGbg0 After I had watched the link to the Davos panel discussion, it was very clear that the moderator, Loic Le Meur, was completely clueless. I would also suggest that he is probably not at all alone in that regard. I suspect that Wiezenbaum was not critiquing so much the ability of machines to help us find informational gold and contextual pearls as waging an up-hill battle. A lone voice, in relativity to the huge number of those transfixed by technology, trying to bring balance to the reality that, as you so wisely stated, ultimately it is about the human being! It might serve each of us rather well to make that veil visible and to consciously understand why we need to do it. Alan Scott, look at this link to the “Davos Open Forum 2008 - Virtual Worlds - Fiction or Reality?”

I wondered if Joseph Weizenbaum understands one of the deepest mysteries of all time.

Technological progress quietly places an invisible veil between the inevitable progress that it presents to our forward striving and that, which might be called our archetypal relationship to the essential human being and the natural world.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E198IynGbg0

After I had watched the link to the Davos panel discussion, it was very clear that the moderator, Loic Le Meur, was completely clueless. I would also suggest that he is probably not at all alone in that regard.

I suspect that Wiezenbaum was not critiquing so much the ability of machines to help us find informational gold and contextual pearls as waging an up-hill battle.

A lone voice, in relativity to the huge number of those transfixed by technology, trying to bring balance to the reality that, as you so wisely stated, ultimately it is about the human being!

It might serve each of us rather well to make that veil visible and to consciously understand why we need to do it.

Alan

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