1. The so-called "harm" that technology brings to mankind.
Technology brings welfare to mankind and also brings us "harm":
the roar of big machines disrupts the rural order, Electronic tools have taken away the joy of people’s thinking, the flood of information has plunged the world into insecurity, the hustle and bustle of the Internet is behind new loneliness, intelligent machines are robbing our jobs...
If the way to heal these "harms" is Nostalgia and willing to go back to the past, and if history can be assumed, then might as well travel with Avil to a fictitious world.
2. When the world stays in the "slow" era,
history goes upstream to 1870. That year, the Franco-Prussian War did not occur. Therefore, France is still the France of the Napoleon family, and it has always been.
The world has fallen into a scientific stagnation for 70 years, because scientists have disappeared one after another inexplicably, such as Brown, Einstein, Hertz, Marconi, Nobel, Pasteur, and young scientists in various fields. Therefore, the world stays in the steam age, without electricity, radio, television, and oil extraction technology.
As the protagonist of energy, coal was quickly mined, so charcoal became the main energy source. Not too many young people, the forests of Europe were also cut down. In France and Europe, which were once full of romantic, humanistic and rational thinking, the mountains withered and the sky was full of smoke.
However, nothing can stop people's inner desires, so Europe and the Americas are caught in an energy war for the right to deforestation.
3. Anti-technology is the initiator of black technology.
In order to win the war, science has been mentioned again, because the French Empire needs scientists to develop more powerful weapons. Scientists who refuse to serve the empire and weapons will be pursued.
In a paradise, the Lizard family took away those scientists who were chased and restricted. There were the best research conditions, but there was only the freedom to study "invulnerable" potions, and the freedom to study only there.
Nothing can stop the power and pace of technology.
However, when technology loses the opportunity and possibility of free choice, perhaps it is the greatest harm to mankind.
4. Learn to dance with uncertainty
Peter H Diamandis and Steven Kotler tell a story in their book "Abundance": the beheading of Roman Emperor Tiberius A goldsmith, because the goldsmith offered an unusual dinner plate. A brand new metal was used to make this thin, shiny object: aluminum. The Romans before 2000 believed that this new type of metal material was suspected of subverting the currency value of the Roman Empire.
Human beings are born to guard against uncertainty. That is our instinct to protect ourselves. It has existed since ancient times, still exists today, and will exist in the future. It has nothing to do with history and time, and is related to cognition and speculation. The more extreme it is.
From the first encounter with human beings, modern technology has experienced rebellious juvenile and reckless adolescence. It has gradually learned to cooperate with humans, is cooperating with humans, and is always cooperating.
Knowledge and mind will enable us to get along with technology better and to dance with uncertainty better.
5. Note
the French animation film of steampunk style, the French style is brain-inspiring, and it has a bit of Hayao Miyazaki's feeling to look at, and the taste is unique.
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