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My favourite poem from Margaret Avison’s Always Now is “Detroit … Chicago … 8 a.m. … Platform 5”(page 147). It stands out for me because it holds a mirror to society by pointing out one of the many idiosyncrasies that people in general are guilty of. I took the poem to be a discussion of why it is that people do not consider the possibility of human error when a human being is responsible for almost everything that occurs in this world.
Technology today is making the First World an easier place to live in. Everything is becoming so easy and convenient that people just expect what they want to appear in an instant, just like the people in the poem waiting for the 8am bus. What sometimes gets forgotten is that humans create every new piece of technology. Humans are responsible for every convenience and new advancement. Nowadays when the bus is late or the person behind the counter makes your double tall non-fat 180 degrees sugar-free vanilla latte wrong (sorry, I work at a Starbucks) people get all up in arms. Impatience is the negative side effect of convenience. We need to remember that human beings still make mistakes. The bus being half an hour late isn’t really that big of a deal; it could be a lot worse.
Technology today is making the First World an easier place to live in. Everything is becoming so easy and convenient that people just expect what they want to appear in an instant, just like the people in the poem waiting for the 8am bus. What sometimes gets forgotten is that humans create every new piece of technology. Humans are responsible for every convenience and new advancement. Nowadays when the bus is late or the person behind the counter makes your double tall non-fat 180 degrees sugar-free vanilla latte wrong (sorry, I work at a Starbucks) people get all up in arms. Impatience is the negative side effect of convenience. We need to remember that human beings still make mistakes. The bus being half an hour late isn’t really that big of a deal; it could be a lot worse.
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