Cultural apocalypse

Do any of us know anything at all?

I came to this thought twice this week, once as I was skimming an article for a class and the second time as I was playing my computer game (or “smoking crack”, as I like to call it)

While I was failing to read my article, I wondered if no one ever really read anything for their classes or for work. If not, do we ever really know anything, even in subjects we are supposedly knowledgeable about? How about the authors of the articles and books?

(??) No one is technologically advanced. There are people who are completely inept (like the joke about the ”cup holder” that was actually the CD-rom) and there are people who are capable of using their computer. There are people who are very good at learning programs and op systems. There are people who can troubleshoot computers both in hardware and software. There are people who can set up the computer and troubleshoot hardware problems. There are people who can set up communication between computers. Then there are people who can program the computers to think better and more efficiently. There are people who can create the actual software that the users use. There is hardly anyone who can do all of these things. While the Internet’s society could be anarchic, technology as a whole is socialist. Not one component is knowable to any one person but each individual contributes to the whole.