...If there's a ghost in my room and he says I'd better run"
That was a song quote (my fave band and the subject of my MLI).
But anyways I feel like another conspiracy is afoot, tying into Karli's recent posts about how people would handle without technology.
Lately, it seems that a lot of people have been having their computers or technological devices go haywire or conk out. Christian reported that his computer finally died. My friend Alex just had his TI Nspire crash spontaneously. My computer has had a variation on the blue screen of death twice (it did not turn out deadly), and the list could go on.
My point is, why is technology seeming to all fail gradually but simultaneously?
I fear there might be a technology crash of some degree on the horizon, one that may or may not be foreseeable.
Or it could all be a coincidence.
This makes me wonder: at what point does a series of similar events become a coincidence? To what extent can we predict the future based on patterns?
Well, you gave three examples. I think we can safely say then that three examples or less is a coincidence. Four or more is a conspiracy. Oh, and to answer your question, probs cant. That makes me think of string theory or any of those other new theories that say that we exist as one with the future. I think time travel would be cool. To what extent is time travel possible?
ReplyDeleteI think this is why it is important to not totally rely on technology. I know society really has gone away from the "paper" aspect, but sometimes, technology can fail, like you said, and then we would be lost. This can kind of relate to history, Darda said it's important to have your notes in many places. Maybe one on a jump drive, one on your desktop, and then a handwritten copy too.
ReplyDeleteWe've learned that the process of gaining knowledge involves noticing and interpreting patterns. However, where do we gain the knowledge that a certain pattern is significant enough to rely on?
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