Quote from Tim Carmody, Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology

That’s what technology is. It’s the world of things, some impossibly stupid, some smarter than we are, we have assembled around ourselves to cover over our fundamental weaknesses as a species. The strength we have, the advantage this gives us, is our ability to stand apart from the things we’ve made: to use them and set them aside; to make them prosthetic extensions of ourselves and to let them go.

Paul Love22 Dec 2014 #technology · Originally posted on the Ghost-era site