I first became interested in tech's impact on culture when I began to notice how ubiquitous a topic it is. It shows up in science journals, religious texts, art (both popular and obscure). It's on the agenda of Wall St firms, and Washington sub-committees. Both historians and futurists make careers from the topic.
There are tidbits about the evil and wonders of it scattered across our vast cultural landscape. From the taming of fire, to the plow, to the printing press, to the steam engine, to the world wide web, technology has played a center role in almost every human endeavour. How we live, learn, work, eat, love; in short, how we survive is impacted directly by how we interact with it. And how our world will look like in 50, 100, 200 years will result from how we use technology today. Yet the study of technology has always been on the academic periphery of our collective consciousness; only becoming relevant as cautionary tales or future wow.
This blog is an attempt to connect all these dots into a cohesive whole beyond the 'good and evil'. It does so by mapping the ecology of innovation. This ecology is made up of all the factors that go into the development of innovation.
Hopefully, by mapping this ecology we can better manage the consequences of our adaptive nature.
edited: 25SEPT10
