The scholarly source that I am very interested in is called ‘Technology and the Human Limit’. The author is Baker Brownell. This article mainly illustrates the relationship between current technology development and human’s inherent limitation. The author believes that “there are both physiological and psychological limitations conditioning human being.” With no measure in our expansion into the environment and no boundary in our ambitions, we have already transcended our due limitations by overusing thousands of mechanical contrivances to change the world by our wishes.

In the article, when the author talks about the nature of limitations, he mentions one main critical idea of his opinion (no critic’s name) that “by developing technology, our life can have new meaning and experience, so we should regard this extension of limitations as cultural growth.” However, the author strongly refutes by pointing out that “this extension is not enriching but disintegrative and people’s increasing natural tolerance towards drunkenness is an example.” In other words, the author believes that though developing technology and extending human life are seemingly amazing breakthroughs in human history, there is always a cost behind those progressions.

The ideas about technology overuse and intemperate human extension can help me develop my paper. With a similar technology theme, this article mainly focuses on modern aggregations of industrial power’s improper, unconfined dynamic patterns and functional structures in the physical world. Differently, the reflection on technology in ‘Super Sad True Love Story’ contemplates on the technology’s irreversible mental influence on the way people get in touch with each other and the degree people rely on technology in a soon future. These two aspects can perfectly complement each other. I think that combining both the physical and mental influence of technology, my paper can form a better analysis about a progressing relationship between human and technology.

Reference:  Baker Brownell, ‘Technology and the Human Limit’, 1949,3.

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