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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Technology...

Some days ago I red an interesting article about technology and future cyber houses. Interesting, as it talked about the battle between "technology" and "feng shui"
Will we actually live in high tech cyber houses in many years from now. where everything can be activated by voice command, where you can program a house robot that will do the cooking, cleaning, and all other domestic activities. Sounds interesting and it might save a lot of time, but for what? Do we need robots to do all domestic activities because our lives are getting to busy, are we that tied up in our work? Does everything have to be actvated by voice command and do we want to live in houses where everything is organized and depends on technology?

I don't know where it will end, right now in Asia you can buy a house robot for a shit load of money. Does it really enhance our lives? Where is the "romance"?

We'll see where it will end up, but for now I'll agree with the opinion that "technology" will never win from so called "feng shui" Anyways, I'll just stick to the old -fashioned "romantic" hand writing (although email is convenient I have to admit)

posted by Kevin at 8:23 AM

3 Comments:

Blogger Marta said...

Hi Kev,

have you seen the movie: I Robot??
I have, and I totally agree with you, that we shouldn't substitute our normal lives and the domestic activities with robots, definitelly not!

Robots are just machine without inteligence and they can be very cruel,powerful and destroing beings!

I think we should remember it!

12:12 PM

 
Blogger Nadiyka said...

In this case - waiting for you hand-written mails, Kev :)

1:39 PM

 
Blogger EeLing said...

Well, i dunno about robot house. Right now, if i think about walking down the street with robots around like one of us, yah i feel so uneasy, but we never know, things might change many years down the road, we might get so used to it. At this moment, I don't think it will win over 'feng shui' especially here in Asia. But, one great thing about technology is that it connects us all together..We can see, talk and hear each other everyday even though we are so so so far apart. We do not have to wait for snail mails to talk to each other,even though deep down inside me, i still love to write and receive 'romantic' hand-written mails as well. ^_^

5:08 PM

 

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