{"id":1601,"date":"2017-04-26T23:35:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2017-04-27T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:09:22","slug":"are-humans-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/04\/26\/are-humans-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Humans Broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thoroughly enjoyed Steven Jackson’s Rethinking Repair<\/em> as it brought to light a non-conventional method of thinking that is not often discussed. As a millennial in our modern-day society I am constantly targeted with words such as “new”, “innovative”, “high-tech”, and “groundbreaking” at least a few times a day. These words bring to mind a Back To the Future 2 \u00a0mindset, one that has flying skateboards and futuristic technology. \u00a0They never make me think of innovations as something done to “fix” an issue or existing problem.<\/p>\n

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An example of the ads we are exposed to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Taking Jackson’s mindset into account, I would like to pose the question: are humans broken? Jackson believes that constant changing world “is a world of pain and possibility, creativity and destruction, innovation, and the worst excess of leftover habit and power” (pg 222). Are humans a part of this besides being physically involved. One of the newest innovations that has hit the market is the self-driving Tesla that we covered in class recently. It has been marketed as a huge advancement into the robot-controlled universe where humans don’t have to do as much. There are already car manufacturers that have an assembly line of machines doing the work that humans could be doing.<\/p>\n

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Machines are taking over human jobs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is possible that we could see similar developments occur in other service fields(dining, mail, garbage collection) with the passing of time and the expansion of technology. These thoughts bring to light one question:<\/p>\n

If we are making machines do the work for us, does that mean that the human species are broken?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even then, what would the definition of broken mean when relating to a human. Furthermore, if we assume that humans are broken, then wouldn’t the machines made by them be broken as well? Or would we eventually get to a point in society where we build these machines and they begin to build themselves better? These are questions that we should keep in mind when discussing broken world thinking. It seems intuitive that humans would not want to think of themselves as ultimately obsolete, but \u00a0it is a good way to begin pondering the direction that broken world thinking can us.<\/p>\n

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I thoroughly enjoyed Steven Jackson’s Rethinking Repair as it brought to light a non-conventional method of thinking that is not often discussed. As a millennial in our modern-day society I am constantly targeted with words such as “new”, “innovative”, “high-tech”, and “groundbreaking” at least a few times a day. These words bring to mind a … <\/p>\n

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