Obsolescence

Click to enlarge Angel of Death...monarch to the kingdom of the dead! Buckminster Fuller, the guy who came up with Buckey Balls and the Dymaxion car once said that humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. I can't exactly call myself a luddite, since I am, at this moment, listening to a Pixies Mp3, watching the BBC news and typing into a weblog all simultaneously. However, the fact that I am surrounded by all this great technology got me to thinking about the associated dangers, like the redundancy of human factory workers or, say, nuclear war. We take two steps forward and then three steps back. Pretty soon, the Statue of Liberty will be up to its neck in sand and we'll all be ruled by damn, dirty apes...