{"id":63,"date":"2020-02-13T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:51:17","slug":"slowing-down-keeping-up-technology-determination-and-modern-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/2020\/02\/13\/slowing-down-keeping-up-technology-determination-and-modern-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing down; keeping up &#8211; technology, determination and modern heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dr Zac Rogers recently published article in <a href=\"https:\/\/aips.net.au\/aq-magazine\/current-edition\/\">Australian Quarterly<\/a> (Jan-Mar 2020)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ideas are the driving force of human history. Yet most of the ideas humans have had, have been terrible failures. History favours slow and recursive change \u2013 not change for its own sake \u2013 yet today we live in an era of mind-numbingly rapid technology change. Buzz-words like \u2018innovation\u2019, \u2018disruption\u2019, and \u2018transformation\u2019 have become not means-to-ends, but literally ends-unto-themselves. Yet do we know how we came to this\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2020\/02\/AQ-91.1-Cover-Proof-500-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2020\/02\/AQ-91.1-Cover-Proof-500-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2020\/02\/AQ-91.1-Cover-Proof-500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>place; have we come the wrong way? And what happens if we don\u2019t like the path that we\u2019ve been led down?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Zac Rogers recently published article in Australian Quarterly (Jan-Mar 2020)\u00a0 Ideas are the driving force of human history. Yet most of the ideas humans have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621],"tags":[217,219,220,218],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disruptive-technologies","tag-democracy","tag-disruption","tag-human-technology","tag-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/jeff-bleich-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}