Obsoleting Humanity

Although the title of this article appears glaringly Draconian, it's becoming clear to me that this has become the ultimate goal for which all of humanity itself is foolishly striving.

This I realized when my third (3rd) laser-printer in two years broke this week.

Obviously, this conclusion is an emotional nonsequiter response to technology-failure, but there's more to it than meets-the-eye.

In actual fact, what is being knowingly obsoleted is not humanity, per se, but rather durability.

Many folks would contend that NOTHING LASTS, but that it a fairly useless conclusion...understanding WHY nothing seems durable enough for normal-usage is important in respecting the relative durability of human-beings.

Even though human-life itself is fairly long-lived [generally speaking], the very nature of human-biology is somewhat fragile...say, compared to rocks.

But consumer-technology itself seems to have taken a nose-dive in recent years. My television, for example, has been in continuous trouble-free operation since 1988. So I have a ready-comparison to the PCs, printers and hard-drives I've burned-through since 1995...which is a fair number.

I suppose (while don't actually -know-) that such fragility is a function of sales-formulae that stress "more-faster-cheaper" rather than any genuine loss-of-quality in production techniques.

But it's getting on my nerves that I can't seem to own a piece of technology longer than four months nominal-usage without it breaking.

And this is why I feel as if humanity itself is shortly destined for obsolescence.

--mattergy