I’m a
person who thrives on technology. Not that I know how any of it works – and some
of it, I can hardly ever get it to do what I want – but I can’t imagine a life
without all the technology I have at my disposal. Yet, at the same time, I
wonder what impact it will have on the natural progression of our society.
For the
last two hundred years, technology has advanced at an astounding rate. Along
with it has grown our ability to preserve and display our own history and
culture. At the same time as preserving, we’re reinforcing our own cultural identity.
Through
movies and internet, the various concepts, values and beliefs important to our
culture are expressed over and over. We watch these and pass them on to our
children; our history and ideals are passed on as they never were able to be
before. We preserve so much, and yet, I wonder if we aren’t causing cultural
progression to grow stagnant.
On social
media, on several occasions I’ve come across a video showing the standards for
human beauty as they have changed over the years. But, when was the last time
these standards truly changed? With all the movies and videos out there
reinforcing our current standards, how many generations will it take before we
move on?
A character
in one of the Assassin’s Creed video games once commented on a preserved city
that “history is the study of change” and that when change stops, death occurs.
It’s the same with culture – it is meant to be forever changing and growing.
So, I
wonder, is how much we strive to preserve things good or bad? Will our current
technologies preserve our generation in a way that will make simple work for
future archaeologists, or will it become the gospel by which future generations
live?
I guess
only time will tell.
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