Specialization
In the beginning of society, man slowly noticed some were better at hunting then others, where some were better farmers and thinkers. Specialization. It was the detrimental factor in our society. It made our society great, and relatively fast. I drove past an old Chevy truck with two big red lights on the back today. These two lights served as everything for signals; backing up, braking and turn signals. No specialization. Just two monster powered lights that did everything. Not electronically efficient at all, if the light burned out, you lose everything. Nowadays, we have a different light for every turn brake and direction we go in. It saves power, and makes it safer if one burns out. Specialization. If one guy in our society ran the country, built all the cars and performed all the surgeries, if something happened to him we’d all be… Well we’d be fucked. Luckily, everyone does something different, and we have seemingly master specialization. Here lies the issue. You used to have to buy a guitar to play guitar, buy a computer to go on the internet, buy a camera to take a picture and get a game boy to play a video game. Specialization. Now, our society has built these monster machines that do it all. Now I love my iPad, but now that I have one, everything rides on it. It is my president/slash/doctor/slash/engineer. Is this back pedaling? Our society has forgotten that no specialization is a no no. We put so much on these computers and machines, we trust them with our money, our social connects, our friends, our data and thoughts. We put it all in one place, and that just makes it so easy to fall. What’s going to cause more damage, the one giant nuke on the plain, or the million firecrackers scattered across? We seem to be losing sight of how important specialization is. Just imagine if the Internet shut down tomorrow. Hell would break lose. We have created a monster, a giant, massive clusterfuck of information that we would plug our pacemakers into if we could. Does it need to be fixed or stopped? I have no idea. But we’re all along for the ride, whether we like it or not.