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Written by Erin Gallagher for FUSE Magazine
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 01:22 |
Creeping in to most facets of our lives… Facebook, msn, yahoo; email addresses for home, work and the junk stuff you want to subscribe to on the internet but do not want to clog up your ‘good address’ with; mobile phones and GPS’s.
Be warned however, there is a dark side to the apparent advantages of all this technology. Resistentialism is a new theory that I’m beginning to put great stock in.
Wikipedia states that resistentialism is when inanimate objects display hostile desires towards human beings — and yes, I am one of those people naïve enough to believe that most things I read on the Internet are true. Now I hear the cogs in your mind starting to turn. Yes!
When the computer froze on you and all you got was the blue screen of death just when your final report was due, and you had forgotten to save since you had your brainwave three hours ago. Yes! When the sms you swear you sent to apologise for not being there didn’t send. Yes!
When you were writing that email in anger and haste after your argument and you swear you didn’t press the send button but off it’s gone into the non retrievable, non undoable ether. This is resistentialism at play. A fair step-up from the dumb chair that jumped out in front of you and made you kick your toe. Technology isn’t just being created by us for us to use, it’s just evolution of the inanimate objects waging war on us unsuspecting people.
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