{"id":6156,"date":"2023-06-16T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:23:56","slug":"764-technological-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/764-technological-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"764 | TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TOBY TOVER-KREIN “A Cell Phone Relationship”
acrylic\/mixed media\/archival cardboard\/canvas
30″h x 40’w Lucite edge framed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Painting by Toby Tover, USA<\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tobytoverart\/<\/a><\/p>\n

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

When technology takes all power<\/p>\n

and no more facilitates<\/p>\n

human relations,<\/p>\n

but replaces them.<\/p>\n

When we do not talk anymore together<\/p>\n

except by mobile phone or computer<\/p>\n

and every human intimacy<\/p>\n

becomes secondary.<\/p>\n

When children do not play anymore together,<\/p>\n

but each one only in his own electronic world,<\/p>\n

and a mother does not give her breast<\/p>\n

unless her eye is fixed on the mobile screen.<\/p>\n

And if we see a reason
\nto maintain the human race,<\/p>\n

it only will be<\/p>\n

by in-vitro fertilization,<\/p>\n

then we will be lost.<\/p>\n

Th\u00f3r Stef\u00e1nsson<\/strong>, Iceland<\/p>\n

Translation by the author, Germain Droogenbroodt and Stanley Barkan
\n<\/em>
\nfrom: \u201eR\u00e9flexions<\/em>\u201c, Editions du Cygne, 2023<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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