Cultural Advantage 2.0

Hi,

If you use PC quite extensively, you may think as I do that perhaps it shall be better if we have special-wing to click the 'mouse' without leaving our two hands from the keypad. Sometimes I also wonder whether it is possible to configure these tools in a more efficient way.

And then yesterday I find that Dilbert also had had similar conversation with Zimbu (see Dilbert comic strip). [1] Zimbu is a monkey that company hired for specific tasks on PC, and it uses its tail to click the mouse so it can do it faster than human does. [2][3]

One day, Dilbert had had enough with Zimbu and warned that it cannot use tail to click 'mouse'. But Zimbu replied, that Dilbert only doesn't realize the irony side of the situation, that human has created PC with user-intuitive interfaces that enable monkeys to do their tails for their own advantages. In other words, according to Zimbu, time has come that evolution beats human back with their own technologies. Zimbu concludes that 'I can hear the evolution clocks tick tick tick...'

Frankly speaking, I think that Zimbu has something deep to say (behind this ironic humor), that perhaps human has created cultures, technologies etc which unfortunately are going to beat human back. For instance, we keep on produce pollution, and nature send us back acid rain etc.

Then perhaps it seems time has come to think whether we shall do re-thinking of this culture which has become so destructive for human being themselves. I just remember Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point, which essentially reminds us of this hard-science, hard technology [4]. Now it seems time has come to switch our culture towards soft-science and more human approach to Nature.


VC
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Further reading:

[1] "Zimbu. A monkey who humiliates Dilbert and Wally by constantly outperforming them. He uses his tail to operate the computer mouse" http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert


[2] http://www.a-a-p.org/presentations.html


[3] http://www.zimbu.org/


[4] www.mountainman.com.au/capra_0.html


[5] http://www.wplus.net/pp/Julia/Capra/Cpt1.htm