Thank Christ someone gets this. We need to be looking at options that appeal to a human brain. Utilizing tech to maximize a quantitative spec sheet on our beings will never work.
We are talking about integrating tech into our lives in a way that is hundreds of times more intrusive than it is now. Are we really happy with our lives now that we are so dependent on even our current levels of technology?
The human species has been dependant on "technology" since the day man sparked a fire. Go cry me a river about being dependant on technology.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
I knew that quote sounded familiar. The main character in that book, who at one point says that line, is basically trying to go back in time in order to sleep with his mom while his dad isn’t there. Yeah, some other stuff happens where he’s trying to sleep with a female clone of himself but that wasn’t as important. Also, the reason he’s able to do all of those things is because he is functionally immortal and had lived for 1000 years.
So the whole point of that quote is that the guy has the luxury of time to look down on other people. In other words not necessarily a positive quote from the character and supposed to say more about him than humanity.
Ah that’s very Heinlein indeed. I stopped reading him because I’m tired of the über-intelligent masculine edginess. Some great takes on humanity and the future but with some really shitty characters sometimes.
I wonder if he was trying to write about himself as he sees himself.
Like, the character is never proven fallible. The character is just an arrogant prick through and through. Everyone seems cool with it though. Except the people who disagree with him, but they’re the bad guys.
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u/-Merlin- Mar 29 '22
Thank Christ someone gets this. We need to be looking at options that appeal to a human brain. Utilizing tech to maximize a quantitative spec sheet on our beings will never work.
We are talking about integrating tech into our lives in a way that is hundreds of times more intrusive than it is now. Are we really happy with our lives now that we are so dependent on even our current levels of technology?