This is the first posting on this blog. It will serve as a test because this blogging is all new to me. I'm looking forward to this journey of AK/CLTR 4210, but right now i'm feeling quite adrift in a murky quagmire of unanswerable questions about the concept of technological advances and how they relate to the notion of attaining perfection and becoming one with god. The idea that technology/the useful arts, exist primarily to redress man's fall from grace, that their true objective is a "quest for transcendence and salvation" seems to be the very antithisis of what i, up to now have preceived to be technology's true goals - the relentless pursuit of "power and profit".

Michael