November 30, 2006
A technology-genome project
Conrad Roth wonders what a winnowing-fan looks like, much less one that might be mistaken for an oar, finds a trace of it in a surprising contemporary place, and concludes this way:
With our objects we preserve some fragile sense that such a past was, after all, much the same as our familiar present, only rearranged a little, like our words, and like the atoms of our own bodies. We retain, at the same time, the hope that we will not be lost to the future: that whatever progress the world might make, the forms of our objects and ourselves will always prevail.
Link (which also contains a link to Part I)
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One Response to “A technology-genome project”
This is one for me to print and savor. Thanks so much.