In a message dated 9/24/1999 6:46:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, e_shaun@uniserve.com writes:
<< There is one thing, though, I could not tolerate in a nan-city, which
would be lack of production and industry. Given such possibilities as are
manifested by nanotech, it might become easy to revel in the "present" when
that time comes. However, my nan-city would have to be a productive one,
using technology to push all envelopes forward. In fact, the ideal city
(for me) would be less a city than a spacecraft to explore the galaxy.
That is the beauty of our future: one day, science will be so like art, and
art so like science, that it will be impossible and superfluous to
distinguish one from the other.
>>
That statement sounds nice.
I find this post interesting, and perhaps on some level, it should strike me
as admirable, -- coming from the strong puritan work ethic background as I
do.Productivity. I live for that.
Manicured Aesthetics becoming the focus of life... I like
Yet I do not understand. Why could you either tolerate or not, the
productivity of a society that needed to produce nothing to survive? Or more
specifically *how* could you? What about the zen aspect of just being, if
that in itself was the art? Creating a nice environment may become the Zenith
of civilization. Good sounds, good smells, good air, good light, soft
couches, beauty all around you, robust objets d'art, polite conversation,
lovemaking and sweet talk... HEY! just what the hell is wrong with
'"reveling in the present"? Isn't that why we produce, to grab a few
precious moments of *just that*?
Hmph.
I just want to paint pretty brightly colored pictures of cool looking organic
post-nan cities.. I'm gonna go to an art show, call my dearest friend and
chat, and then spend the weekend looking at Roger Dean Postcards and reading
about nan...
: ) : ): )
-- Muse