and with wearables, virtual reality, augmented reality, holographic technologies we become even more immersed as human beings into the strange cyberSurreal otherSpace — a betweenSpace in our spectrum of new and ever-expanding realities — that exist between: the natural world we were born into; the artificial worlds we create; and the evolving technological realm of an alternative set of subconscious realities that our inventions open up to us ( both in realSpace + time as well as in cyberSurrealSpace + time )
for the machines — we become the wetware accompaniment to the technoHumanic symphonies developed through both our extensions and their extensions — whether purposefully created and developed or perhaps even unintentionally built mechanisms to escape our natural environmental context
at first these inventions allowed humankind to survive the elements — to brave and rise above the threats, the harsh realities of Nature
in fact, even the belief systems we invent, such as language, religion, mathematics, psychology and Science, to some degree, act as other tools to help us dominate the unexplainable phenomena of the universe that feel stacked up against us
these become methods for our survival at first
through measurement, logic, reason, discovery, explanation and blind faith — we get to reframe our existence toward an imagined superiority and rulership over everything we experience in life
but now the evolution of these tools into unexplored areas within — areas that reside within the subconscious, invented realities of our belief systems and our technological augmentations beyond the powers of Nature — these have become addictive forces that unfortunately begin to rule over our humanity
at this point, we are no longer able stop our continuing urge to technologically advance and ‘evolve’ ourselves
its become an addiction — an addiction that gets the full financial and emotional support from our official governments and corporations — after all, vast economic promise depends on the hot streaming ever-inventive production and output of ‘the new’
but we no longer need to invent new tools for survival — at least not those of us born into the privilege and supposed leisure that The First World offers up to humanity
our escape from Nature and the feeling of sovereignty we fabricate through our tools, inventions and technologies now seem to only encourage a disconnectedness from our larger contexts within the world and within a greater holistic and collective sense of our humanity
the otherSpace we create tends to consume us
we subconsciously travel in our ethereal, cerebral thinking so very far away from those aspects of our social animal selves
we are distracted from, perhaps, a bigger purpose
how can we better channel our energies to best serve this bigger purpose?
i am not advocating for a suppression of our inventions through Science and technology
i’m just hoping we can leverage them — and the passion and energies that go into these sorts of development efforts — to optimize the larger, collective human experience of people all around the world
products like the Apple Watch distract us from working towards the greater good that we could potentially provide to our brethren world citizens
products like the Apple Watch feel superfluous, unnecessary and more for the benefit of companies, surface economies and governments than for the majority of actual people
frivolity
derivative
and ultimately unimportant in comparison the grander potential of what we can all be offering the world at this point in time
