I grew up in a culture that was not interested in this - a situation that still amazes me. Now, looking back on it - I wonder what we were interested in, if we were not interested in people.
We were interested in our ability, to not be interested in people, but in machines of all kinds. Especially as they were used in Transportation and Manufacturing. In a word, Industrialization.
This is a huge subject, that can be understood most easily, by looking at its effects on people. By taking the historical approach. Precisely the approach that Industrialization avoided.
But this avoidance made rich material for artists of all kinds. And was the motivation behind Romanticism. To be an artist, you had to be critical of Industry.
This was the fine line, that artists had to tread - being critical of Industry, but not destructive of it.
A problem that persists in our time, that is dominated by the Computer, and its Software.
We still have to ask - is this good for people?
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