Hello everyone, it's me Duncan and I hope that you're doing great. I'm gonna start

this podcast off with one of my favorite monologues about technology and it's

from the movie Waking Life which you should watch if you haven't watched it's

by Richard Winklater. The whole thing is rotoscopes. It's got this beautiful

mushroomy psychedelic flowing effect to it and it's filled with so many

interesting ideas and the thing in the music is beautiful and it's just a

very poignant, incredible film. So definitely you should watch that you can

run it on iTunes but in the meantime here's a clip from Waking Life about

technology. If we're looking at the highlights of human development you have to

look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its

interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the

evolution of life proceed through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind

Neanderthal Kromangaman. Now interestingly what you're looking at here are

three strains biological anthropological development the cities cultures and

culture which is human expression. Now what you've seen here is the evolution of

populations not so much the evolution of individuals and in addition if you look

at the timescales that's involved here two billion years for life six million

years for the hominid 100,000 years for mankind as we know it you're beginning

to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm and then when you get

to agriculture when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution

you're looking at 10,000 years for 100 years 150 years you're seeing a

further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go

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