5/6 extra: 1911 color photograph

Undertoad · 05-08-2001, 08:27 PM

And that's not all. During this period of time, color photography was known, but wasn't much of a product, and certainly wasn't "consumerized". Invented, but not available.

As a result, the information and perception of many decades of time are B+W.

Today, technologies are pretty much mined for every possible consumer use. We're gonna have the internet on our cell phone, and spray cheese, and high-tech glues in our sneakers.

Technology being everywhere, it's sometimes hard to understand the impact of it. But now we see: several decades of great-grandmothers are not remembered in color, several armies of men die while bleeding blood that appears black. There is a haze over our understanding of them as a people.

The Unabomber's anti-tech ranting breaks down once technology helps us to understand ourselves and humanity and our world.

05-08-2001, 08:27 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And that's not all. During this period of time, color photography was known, but wasn't much of a product, and certainly wasn't "consumerized". Invented, but not available. As a result, the information and perception of many decades of time are B+W. Today, technologies are pretty much mined for every possible consumer use. We're gonna have the internet on our cell phone, and spray cheese, and high-tech glues in our sneakers. Technology being everywhere, it's sometimes hard to understand the impact of it. But now we see: several decades of great-grandmothers are not remembered in color, several armies of men die while bleeding blood that appears black. There is a haze over our understanding of them as a people. The Unabomber's anti-tech ranting breaks down once technology helps us to understand ourselves and humanity and our world.

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