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As of tomorrow I'll have spent 53 years walking the Earth. OK… maybe make that 52.3 years walking, and 0.7 years crawling… Looking back over that time now I see a number of dramatic changes in how us humans live our day-to-day lives. For example, when I was born:
- Smoking was everywhere, from airplane interiors to hospitals to the neighborhood breakfast bar. And its negative health effects were not widely acknowledged.
- The typical family had a working father and stay-at-home mother. Society and economics was geared to support that lifestyle.
- Gays were well-closeted and few dared to peek out. Those who did were often openly shunned.
- Conditions like ADD/ADHD and Aspergers and many others were undiagnosed and even bipolar disorder seemed less that understood by most.
- Most houses had a single telephone (though some people illegally added another independently purchased phone off their single land line).
- Most homes had a single TV – B&W and not usually larger than 20". You had access to three networks, which went off air about midnight.
- Computers were huge devices, used almost exclusively by scientist and engineers. And of course there was no internet.
- No American had flown in orbit.
- All regular global communications went through wire as experimental communication satellites were just being tested.
- Cars had no seatbelts and just AM radios.
- There were no microwave ovens… or listing of nutritional content or even ingredients on food packaging.
- The American south was well segregated and laws remained on the books in many states criminalizing interracial marriage.
- The average life expectancy for an American was age 69.
- CPR just came into being.
- There was no consumer level way to enjoy video recording or playback. If you missed a film at the theater, you just had to hope you'd get to see an "edited for television" version broadcast some day... or find a 16mm copy and projector.
- We had no clear views of any planetary surface besides the Moon. And nothing had ever visited that far. And we had not even visited the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
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I could go on, but it's clear a lot's gone down in half a century that has made us live very different lives today. So my question to you all is what do you see as probable changes in human existence between now and 2060? Will the visions of transhumanism and nanotechnology change us in dramatic ways – especially when driven by the carrot of even more accessible social communications? Will genetic engineering start to redefine us as species? Just how will society and science change the way we live our daily lives?
There's so many ways this could go… but as the unchanging character of the male business dress shirt shows us, sometimes though we CAN change, we choose not to. So – your thoughts?
One thing that doesn't change is that this is the point where I try to flaunt new DA art by others that you may not have noticed! Dive in!
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- Smoking was everywhere, from airplane interiors to hospitals to the neighborhood breakfast bar. And its negative health effects were not widely acknowledged.
- The typical family had a working father and stay-at-home mother. Society and economics was geared to support that lifestyle.
- Gays were well-closeted and few dared to peek out. Those who did were often openly shunned.
- Conditions like ADD/ADHD and Aspergers and many others were undiagnosed and even bipolar disorder seemed less that understood by most.
- Most houses had a single telephone (though some people illegally added another independently purchased phone off their single land line).
- Most homes had a single TV – B&W and not usually larger than 20". You had access to three networks, which went off air about midnight.
- Computers were huge devices, used almost exclusively by scientist and engineers. And of course there was no internet.
- No American had flown in orbit.
- All regular global communications went through wire as experimental communication satellites were just being tested.
- Cars had no seatbelts and just AM radios.
- There were no microwave ovens… or listing of nutritional content or even ingredients on food packaging.
- The American south was well segregated and laws remained on the books in many states criminalizing interracial marriage.
- The average life expectancy for an American was age 69.
- CPR just came into being.
- There was no consumer level way to enjoy video recording or playback. If you missed a film at the theater, you just had to hope you'd get to see an "edited for television" version broadcast some day... or find a 16mm copy and projector.
- We had no clear views of any planetary surface besides the Moon. And nothing had ever visited that far. And we had not even visited the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
<da:thumb id="288793044"/>I could go on, but it's clear a lot's gone down in half a century that has made us live very different lives today. So my question to you all is what do you see as probable changes in human existence between now and 2060? Will the visions of transhumanism and nanotechnology change us in dramatic ways – especially when driven by the carrot of even more accessible social communications? Will genetic engineering start to redefine us as species? Just how will society and science change the way we live our daily lives?
There's so many ways this could go… but as the unchanging character of the male business dress shirt shows us, sometimes though we CAN change, we choose not to. So – your thoughts?
One thing that doesn't change is that this is the point where I try to flaunt new DA art by others that you may not have noticed! Dive in!
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Simmering
While I haven’t been leaving much of a visible art foot print, these last few weeks, I haven’t been slacking off. First, I’m working on both building up my digital resources and trying to get my 3D-skills updated after about a three-year absence. There’s quite a few image ideas swimming in my head, I’m just building to the point where I can tackle them in my “new ways”.
Second, I’m taking an online natural illustration course out of Australia so that’s not only going to be taking some of my art time, but also (hopefully) giving me a refresher with my old skills in physical art media. So l
2020: The Year I Make Recontact
Well it’s been only about a month (give or take) since my last blog update so maybe I’m having success in retraining myself back to the DA habit. I’ve made really good progress on migrating my old arting materials to my new machine and getting up to speed with DAZ Studio 4.12. I may have only pumped out three finished pieces, but behind each one is a number of experiments and trials. With each one my “render legs” have regained a bit more strength. It feels kinda nice being back at the digital drawing board… if only to provide some distraction from our nation’s dumpster fire du jour.
I’m also r
From the shadows shuffles the unspeakable horror..
Well hey there! Long time no chat. I’m still alive and kickin’… I’ve just been kickin’ it elsewhere: in my reading nook, on my modeling bench, and in my kayak. So I’ve very much NOT been here… due to the fact I didn’t have much new to show anyone. But that may change in the coming months.
The biggest thing that’d been keeping me away from making art was my aging machine (as I work mostly digital, these days). The ole box just could keep up with the state of the tech. Like a (too) old car, it can still get me from point A to point B – most of the time – but not without great ag
We here I am again… after another loooooooong absence. For whatever reason I just haven’t felt driven to create much art this year, and something in me feels guilty about coming to DA purely as a spectator. All I can say is that I sure hope this lull passes because I’m much happier when I’m creating!
I’d be lying if I said political anxiety here in the U.S. wasn’t part of the problem and with the outcome of the last election I find myself driven to become even more politically engaged to preserve the progress made over the last couple of decades. But I’ll attempt to minimize bringing my political bag
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Copyright, patent, and IP trolling will have destroyed every innovation, every idea, collapsed the free market, and stopped all scientific and technological progress of humanity. Humans will live in a stagnant society with a decreasing quality of life, dominated largely by a few corrupt companies who own and control a globalist, out of control, American government.