David Koepsell
* JD/PhD, Research Assistant Professor, SUNY at Buffalo & Donaghue Visiting Scholar, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics 2006-2007.
It is clear that some are more adaptive to the rate of technological progress than others. Popular culture and homes across America are rife with angst and alienation. Look for the flashing “12:00” beacons on underused DVD players, or more likely, VHS players – or maybe even Betamax. Our technology is not comfortably integrated with our lives if we fear programming a mere clock. Even among those of us who feel comfortably integrated with our technologies, it is safe to say that there is creeping alienation in the sense that the technology sometimes overwhelms the “human” in uncomfortable ways. Things move too fast, we become inundated, our senses are overwhelmed, and our face-to-face human relationships take a back seat, sometimes.
