Does it ever strike you that man only really learned to fly one hundred and twelve years ago?? Then only seventy years later, we put a man on the moon!!
Sometimes I like to look around the room, watch people pass in the halls here at school, whatever… I like to really examine all the technology that we use every single day, for the smallest of things. For example, a handicap press-opener on a door. A combination of many small factors to make one very useful product! Or take a look into one of the lounges or into a classroom before class begins. How many people are on their cell phones, laptops, or iPods? Or I count the number of computers in my own home! Not too many years ago at all, people had to type out term papers on their (electric, if you were lucky) typewriters, learn how to spell for themselves (no spellcheck??AHH!) and had to know how to do research from books from this magical place called a library (Google search: what is a book?)
I’m a little surprised that the Humanities book includes a section on the development of technology and the information age, but it’s a pleasant surprise. Social change and controversy is one of the strongest driving forces for art and very few times in history has there been as much controversy as in the past century or so. Every new development, theory, practically every decade comes with new ideas. Those new ideas always have those who staunchly oppose them. It is the opposition and the firm supporters that allow for the ever-changing, ever-evolving face of the art world. Without turmoil, there can be no meaningful changes, and we’d all go around reproducing Picassos.
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