Here’s Some Information About Anthrobotic & Me
Space exploration.
Blankets.
Burritos.
Smartphones.
The Hand Axe.
Microprocessors.
These are all artifacts of a technological species, and as a source, propellant, and enabler, technology defines us at the most basic and essential level. www.anthrobotic.com is here to share and explore this concept with a greater audience and accelerate and augment humanity’s linear understanding of an exponential phenomenon.
I’m Reno, and I am an Anthrobotic Sociologist.
Kinda.
Or a Cybernetic Anthropologist.
Perhaps.
It’s a bit ambiguous, but I am working on qualifying and defining and codifying exactly what those titles express – and then sharing my findings – or rejecting them outright. I cover this subject from southern Japan.
And The Subject
Across every culture, throughout all history, the most fundamental human trait is the implementation of technology. The vast spectrum of what we create, the activity of manipulating our environment to further our survival, comfort, and understanding of life and the world around us – this defines our species at the most basic level – this is where it all starts for us.
And by “all” I really mean ALL of it!
Love and Religion are Not as Important as Technology. For Reals.
Technology allowed for us to more easily survive, live longer, and develop attachments to others – thus allowing for our concept of love to develop and be shared with others. Does a chimp love other chimps? Maybe – but chimp technology lacks expressiveness!
Additionally, the codification of speech, art, and the written word quite directly allowed for the emergence of organized religion. Even if the Koran/Bible/Bhagavad Gita/Recipe for Rita’s cookies is the word of god, technology allowed it to be written and shared and used both as a tool of civilization… and as a cudgel.
Look around your world, and you’ll see that, in our human lives, technology is pervasive, fundamental, essential, systemic, omnipresent, an other words that mean EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME! Even if they can’t actually define the term, trust me – even hippies need and love technology. As a student of technology’s role in our civilization and sociology and psychology and social psychology, I used to believe technology was just one among many social forces active in human society.
But I looked a bit closer, and like ¡POW! I saw that technology drives everything we do, it is the one universal underlying factor – it is the single most important, vital, and essential social force of human society.
What’s an “ANTHROBOTIC?”
Well, the wordplay is obvious, yeah?
I had the “Anthrobotic” title in my head for years and years – it was actually an original thought, but it was Steam Engine Timed by some others as well, so I’m not the only one using it. One day Brad bought me a URL and 18 months later I started writing. And I’ve got madd passion.
I try to write with something like irreverent oratorical rhetoric, because it seems honester and more in line with how people really think. Or how I think – and I’m in charge around here and I’ll also be overly verbose and put commas wherever the hell I want to. So yeah, the style here is me having a conversation with myself. I guess that is why I started doing the Anthrobotic audio posts. Need to do more of those.
So yeah – Please Enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by. As always, if you’d like to discuss or dispute or refute my fundamental position on technology, please contact me without using any.¿ No really, all snark aside, I love feedback – please contact me. I’m easier to communicate with than my writing would suggest. At least I think so.
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