Technology and Progress by Adriana Lawton https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress By Makenna Pack and Adriana Lawton en-us 2018-10-25 15:43:40 UTC 2018-10-31 00:33:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Carfront.png pac08854 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298069721 "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate" (Thoreau, Walden).]]> 2018-10-29 15:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298069721 “Our inventions, are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end” (Thoreau, Walden). law06477 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298076951 2018-10-29 15:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298076951 Technology Destroying Nature pac08854 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298078349 2018-10-29 15:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298078349 law06477 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298082750 "Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to, be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground"
(virtual insanity, Jamiroquai)]]> 2018-10-29 15:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298082750 law06477 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298088835 2018-10-29 15:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298088835 Colors of the Wind pac08854 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298096815 Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
...
How high will the sycamore grow
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
]]> 2018-10-29 15:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298096815 law06477 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298791833 2018-10-31 00:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298791833 law06477 https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298796511  "If the cloud that hangs over the engine were the perspiration of heroic deeds, or as beneficent as that which floats over the farmer's fields, then the elements and Nature herself would cheerfully accompany men on their errands and be their escort."   (Thoreau, Walden)]]> 2018-10-31 00:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/law06477/TechnologyandProgress/wish/298796511