Let us look for a moment at how many computers are actually and directly used for something strictly practical. You know, something that helps humans get food or shelter. It is not damn many. Some would claim that these things are not important, that only survival is important. Let us say you live to be 200 years old, but you do it in solitude in a small room without a view, no books, no art, no activity, no friends or family.
Life is what is happening after bare survival has been covered.
Life is striving for fellowship, for love, for art, for wisdom, for higher levels of existence. And all of life is a part of that, including iMac and Aibo. It is not just what overpaid and under-ambitious men in universities are thinking, and what befuddled fine artists are painting, it is everything that surrounds us every day. One day, when mankind has conquered the Earth and perhaps the Galaxy, and at the very least his soul, bare survival will be a given for even the weakest amongst us, and play, aesthetics, knowledge and the spirit will be what life will be about. Eolake Stobblehouse is a contributing editor to the Mac Observer, specializing in cultural matters, and comes to us by way of MacCreator .