Saturday, January 27, 2007

My thoughts on technology


Technology Fast is limiting ourselves from the use of modern technologies and use the basic ways to achieve our objectives. While I understand there are certain reasons for Technology Fast, such as the need of understanding basic ways of doing things or using basic tools to create art that is totally human. Besides the reasons I mentioned, I am not certain on the idea of technology fast.

Technology is human invention aims to make use of our time more efficient and make our lives easier. Cell phones, computer, light bulbs, even electricity itself are technologies, to me even a piece of charcoal is a product of technology. If I must define, perhaps the use of our hands without the help of any tools such as cooking a piece of meat on fire is not.

Friday Jan 19th

5:30am - Alarm Clock - 10 seconds
5:31am - Turn on Light - 2 hours
5:32am - flush toliet, use water sink/tab - 10 mins
5:42am - Flat Iron - 10 mins
5:43am - TV - 45 mins
5:45am - Microwave - 2 mins
6:45am - Car, travel - 46mins
7:30am - elevator - 3 mins
7:35am - Computer at work - 10 hours
7:35am - light at work - 11 hours
7:35am - refrigrator - 4 hours
8am - phone - 5 mins
11:25am - phone - 3 mins
11:10am- printer - 3 mins
11:55am - Microwave - 6 mins
12:35pm - phone - 2 mins
13:25pm - project - 1 hr 25 mins
13:05pm - phone 4 mins
14:30pm - phone - 10 mins
15:23pm - printer - 5 mins
14:56pm - phone - 2 mins
16:23pm - printer - 2 mins
16:34pm - phone - 3 mins
17:34pm - phone - 7 mins
18:05pm - car/travel - 1hr 25 mins
19:30pm - light - 3 hours
19:33pm - TV - 3 hours
19:45pm - strove, oven - 45 mins
19:45pm - ricecooker - 22 mins
20:45pm - sink - 20 mins
20:45pm - diswasher - 30 mins
21:45pm - bathroom - 30 mins
22:30pm - alarm clock set - 1 mins

I don't believe I can go Techology Fast for longer than 1 hour. My day-to-day life/survival from eating, traveling, getting warm, making money, are all heavily involved technologies. I think the only way I can prepare myself for a techology fast is to study history and learn how human used to live in a cave.

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