Just finished posting to the forum and I wanted to say that I felt these readings were excellent. I struggle with technology and its influence in my life and I wonder sometimes if I can just get by without it. I can surely get by without MSN and Facebook, but I am rather attached to my cellphone and email. And I absolutely love the revolutionary idea of open source technologies, it appeals to my counterculture sensibilities. I find myself somewhat isolated by my choices ( for example, of my linux OS, of my KDE and Gnome desktops) although my room mate says that I am not a user but only a follower. I feel that he is just proving that he believes that technology defines a persons status by judging me in that way. I do not feel like that. I feel that we should be able to live without technology. It is dangerous to depend on things we cannot ultimately control, that we cannot fix, and we cannot make. The sheer weight of knowledge needed to support and continue our technological world is mind boggling. Who can possibly understand and utilize all of this capacity for change
