We may anticipate somebody like Dylan, immersed as he has actually constantly remained in folk tunes, old requirements, and American history, to regret the corrupting impact of brand-new innovation. And he does provide some quotes because vein. :

Whatever’s ended up being too smooth and pain-free … The earth might vomit up its dead, and it might be drizzling blood, and we ‘d shrug it off, cool as cucumbers. Whatever’s too simple. Simply one stroke of the ring finger, middle finger, one little click, that’s all it takes, and we’re there.

Or once again:

Innovation resembles sorcery, it’s a magic program, summons spirits, it’s an extension of our body, like the wheel is an extension of our foot. It may be the last nail driven into the casket of civilization; we simply do not understand.

Dylan’s viewpoint is more nuanced than these quotes may recommend. While innovation may doom our civilization, Dylan advises us that it offered us our civilization– that is, “science and technology built the Parthenon, the Egyptian pyramids, the Roman coliseum, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, rockets, jets, planes, automobiles, atom bombs, weapons of mass destruction.”

In the end, innovation is a tool that can either annihilate or promote human imagination.

Keypads and joysticks can be like millstones around your neck, or they can be supporting gamers; either one, you’re the judge. Imagination is a strange thing. It visits who it wishes to check out, when it wishes to, and I believe that that, which alone, gets to the heart of the matter …

[Technology] can hinder imagination, or it can provide an assisting hand and be an assistant. Innovative power can be clogged or prevented by daily life, common life, life in the squirrel cage. An information processing maker or a software application may assist you break out of that, get you over the bulge, however you need to get up early.

Getting up early

I’ve been considering these quotes over the current Christmas and New Year’s vacations, which I mainly invested coughing on the sofa with some type of breathing rubbish. One benefit of this enforced seclusion was that it provided me lots of time to consider my own objectives for 2025 and how innovation may assist or prevent them. (Another was that I got to rewatch the very first 4 Die Hard films on Hulu; the 4th was “dog ass” enough that I could not bring myself to enjoy the last, roundly panned entry in the series.)