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September 26, 2005
Mrmories of the future handout
"one thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future...Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all seem to think that it's going to be just like it is now, only worse."- Andy Warhol
I find that to be a strange statement. Society constantly is changing- we went from tape recorders, to CD players, to MP3 players to IPODS and Shuffles. Everything keeps getting more advanced, smaller in size, and greater in price. If you look at the world through a technological viewpoint, the world is constantly changing. We're using environmental safe cars these days and because gas prices are so high I'm sure people are walking or taking public transportation a lot more so that helps in keeping our air clean.
Sure, we may not have cured AIDS or cancer yet but the research hasn't stopped. Mark Dery also comments that we "can't be bothered to watch the latest shuttle maneuvers"... I wasn't aware that space exploration was really helping us cure Cancer?
I don't know, I may have missed his point all his technical jargon was making my eyes hurt. Half the time it took me five tries to decipher what it was he was trying to explain. He went from space to TWA airplanes. I don't know, I think this article is something I might need to discuss in class to further understand what the point is.
Posted by Deena Aglialoro at September 26, 2005 12:31 PM
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