Eating chips and watching videos in an age of robotardation.
Jul 18 2015
Robotardation is the tendency of technological advances to inhibit, undermine, diminish or retard human abilities, rather than augment them. Robotardation is one way civilization can take one step forward and one-half, one, or even two steps bass-ackwards.
Jeff Dorchen straddles the gulf between human potential and technological capacity, and gives it a name - robotardation. Population: cell phones, potato chip bags, video game players, non-cursive writers, unemployed artists, victims of mass extinctions, drone attacks and Fox News, and Stephen Hawking's voice.
Guest
Jeff Dorchen
Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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