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• 1 2018-10-17T13:03:40-07:00 Robots , nature and the extinction of technology. 3 plain 2018-10-18T02:27:14-07:00
  „Photographs ‘made by and for us’ through such programs ironically promote the idea of the ‘human’ world we own as one purely created for image-taking by non-human, technological species.
  „This notion gains deeper significance in tandem with a 2017 Harvard University study which proclaimed that a solar flare within the next 100 years could potentially cause a technological wipe-out – from the grid, to the internet 
  
  (Marginal Worlds)
   
  I think this brings forth an interesting perspective in conceptualising the technological interaction with nature. So often in media do we hear about the overtaking of machines and the dissolution of human society as we know it the more we progress our technological species:
  
  
  
  However, that is slightly ironic to think that our efforts to conquer and imitate nature through a technological lens will eventually succumb to the threat of nature. Despite our efforts to preserve, memoralise and conquer all knowledge of our natural world, it is a temporary blimp in the grand scheme of the universe.  
  
  
  Yet, while the extinction of technology is slightly unsettling, it can be linked back to the concept of ‘bioblob’ in Extinctions as:
  
  “Instead of many organisms competing individually against the inevitable march of death, life is instead one organism branching out in millions of directions, exploring a myriad of evolutionary pathways, with each individual cell connected by the cycle of life. “
  
  Thus, our desire to replicate, to imitate and to technological memorise all aspects of nature in one light is just another pathway for us to memorialise Earth’s existence. What remains is that humans continue to dismantle the arbitrary structures and rules regulating the existence of nature. 
  
  Natalie Cheung