Processing Power

There is a constant need to process data. There is a scary amount of information being thrown in our direction every minute of every day. Pictures, music, facebook posts, phone calls, texts, posters, conversations, movies, TV, I could go on. Back technology alluided to a better kind of armor or a new mill, people didn't have as much to process. Yes they had to process their enviroment, but they could really study it. How many people do you know who can actually tell direction by the stars? How many people do you know who can tell when its going to rain or whether the sun will come out?

Of course we have GPS to tell us directions and Weather.com to tell us when its going to rain. In a way we have gotten better at doing things through technology and in others we have become worse. We know rely on the technology that was built by other people. We now just learn how to use that technology, live with the technology, we have to figure out how to process like the machines that we use to make our world 'easier' to understand. The problem is that perhaps, we really would be better off if we didn't try to act like machines. We're human afterall. We shouldn't rate ourselves based on our processing power.

I wrote a couple of days ago that I gather inspiration from all over. That I process a lot of data and fingure out what is useable. But there are days, like today, when I don't want to process data. I would rather not search for or look for inspiration. I want to exist and interact with things that are tangible, human, and failable. Human reactions are dirty, unpradiable, and take a lot more work then a simple facebook update. But we're not really meant to interact via facebook. It might be a great tool, but you can't replace real community and relationship. Because Facebook lets you get away from the dirt and grim. In life, dirt and grim is a part of who and what we do. We don't really need more processing power, we need to learn when to use the processing power we have and when to use that power for something else: Tangible Life.