The Technology of the Sacred

By: Andrew Sakach

Other Class: 4

In human adaptation we had to do a project that involved determining what people would be like 100,000 years from now using what we knew of evolution in regards to environment, genetics and culture. This project just got me to thinking on how technology advances depending upon the cultural values of an any given society.

In our culture war, population and food are our three biggest concerns. Our technological progress reflects these in our weapons, our medicine's and sanitation and the way in which our food techniques, primarily agriculture and animal husbandry, have advanced ridiculously.

How would our technology progress if we considered our top priorities to be sacred oriented, whatever could connect us with the sacred the best, or if we valued art and music, how would our technological acheivments reflect this? It's rather staggering to think about.