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My name is Steven Mitchell and I am an undergraduate at Stony Brook University as a double Major in Psychology and History with Minors in Women's Studies and Anthropology. I am a former consulting network architect and Engineering and Telecom project manager for hire to financial service firms on Wall Street (companies involved in the manipulation of money) and the occasional pharmaceutical company. I like writing fiction, introspection and serious philosophical and theoretical work; great books; women; healthy & tasty foods; great films; singing blues and modern rock; listening to virtually any type of music (including hip-hop) and nearly every intellectual discipline in the natural and social sciences.
Aside from the internet, which I believe offers great potential to open up human democracy (especially with Wikipedia-type formats), I think technology is as an entity, obsolete. I think eventually it will become humanity's worst enemy and an impediment to its use (if it isn't already)... human capacity and capability on the computer keyboard, monitor and mouse is already underserved by nearly 3 or 4 times our common contemporary performance capacity. DSL currently can't be used for corporate home user's connectivity to the mother infrastructure. Telephones aren't integrated with the rolodex of numbers we keep nor to the handheld devices we may use. No device databases can talk to any other device databases. Other than the internet computers don't do anything now that they didn't do, 20 years ago. There are actually considerably less applications now for home or office PC's than at that time. Now we all use the same product - one size fits all. Other than some specialized applications primarily for unix users, little has been achieved. Computers were constructed at the speed of light, but with all the horrifically-designed software, now only operate at the speed of a limping dog. All of the "channel-based technologies" being currently implemented emanate from innovations of the 1980's. Most television, film, art and music are derived from formulas... I am horrified that most people think "technology" is cool. It has both contributed to the rate of creation and added significantly to the demands on our time - probably more so for the latter than for the former. Hence, we are standing still with simply more ornamentation around us. I think the positives of technology are canceled by the negatives. We have less time because of the demands of technology, not more. It has not given us a freedom, but become a noose around our necks. I guess we will have to wait for the NEXT generation that grows up disappointed and frustrated "by the collective zombie adherence" and corrects the "period of stasis", that is in fashion now... I can hear the low murmuring but I can't see anything yet. We still are the "Stepford Society" and growing more accepting of being an automaton every day. The Stepford World has arrived.
I also use the IP Address 68.117.37.121, when the "automated" technology (yea sure) fails to recognize my "cookies." I actually have several but I am not sure what all of them are.
