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Signs and Wonders

Signs and Wonders

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Technology changes culture in all possible ways. In the externalworld and in our internal world, our feelings, our emotions, our judgment. And now there is a radical technologythat is generating radical changes. When the powder was invented, opening the doors to fire arms, it must have been astounding, people may have felt at the brink of a catastrophe. The same with the steam machines being used in ships and trains. Speed was both frightening and exhilarating.And with the internal combustion engine there came almost limitless mobility — and it was huge and liberating. Current technology is even more impressive — because it has no physical bounds: it happens also inside our minds andbodies. This is immense — and all that is immense, Sophocles noted, may bring about a curse… Museums and art itself will change and are changing, the meaning of ethics is different from what it was a few decades ago, psychological issues are beingaddressed withthe manipulation of images. It is a new world, it remains to be seen whether it is brave...