Technogearophilia

Have you ever wondered what the paleontologists of the far-flung future might unearth in the course of their study of our age?

With the rise of robotics and cybernetics and the shifts in our environment it’s quite possible that our world will soon move largely to not just a Post-Human era but a largely Post-Biological era.

Throwingchicken on Flickr provides us with a well-crafted and fanciful glimpse of what this Mechazoic Era might leave as fossils for future scientific study.

It may be a strange future populated by chrome beasts…

To a large extent technology doesn’t change people; it only changes the means and venues of the expression of their basic natures. This is quite evident with the advent of Web 2.0 and social media.

People are people and they gather in the same sort of cliques and self-segregate within the “confines” of social media in the same ways, though often based on different selection criteria, as they did and still do in real life (IRL).

And people often have issues maintaining a balance in their lives and Social Media becomes just another vice in their lives or a replacement expression of a previous vice.

Pick Your Poison

It’s “same old, same, old,” in the digital world because we’re still Humanity 1.0 and nobody has identified an upgrade path for us. So settle in with a cool glass of Facebook and we’ll do a few shot of YouTube later.