tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post8413469308400026267..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Human Nature and Survival (Option 2)Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-43147179928199301902008-10-21T16:08:00.000-04:002008-10-21T16:08:00.000-04:00My first response to this essay is that it's a lot...My first response to this essay is that it's a lot of fun; it's a kind of hypersonic romp through the history of human thought.<BR/><BR/>My second response is that you remain, for most of the paper, a dangerous level of generalization. I don't mind, exactly, the section about Galileo, but the time you spend on well-travelled territory is time that you don't spend explaining your own ideas.<BR/><BR/>You end on the point that it is human nature both to survive and ask questions. You have touched on ways in which technology is related to both of these ideas. What you don't do - and you might have done, with a more focused introduction - is start with the realization that "asking questions" and "surviving" are, perhaps, related. That idea is implicit through much of the paper, of course, but it could have been there from the very beginning.<BR/><BR/>I think that there was also a missed opportunity here to develop your own views a little more thoroughly. What, for you, is more fundamental about us? Our urge to survive or our urge to ask questions? Exploring the relationship between the two of them might have been productive.<BR/><BR/>This is interesting and entertaining, but it's a couple good edits away from fulfilling its potential.Adam Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588769281227456640noreply@blogger.com