The other day i had a morning free.  Was watching cricket (we beat Australia that day :) ), listening to some of my favourite music, and browsing the web.  Not for any work-related stuff - just lazily walking through the internet for a little poem here, a splash of colour and fun there, an exploration of dreams, some music album anthologies ... and i was delighted to discover this really neat resource on Carl Jung.  There's a section on technology and environment - with many views ranging from a complete disdain of technology to others that suggest that we need to study further the relationship between technology and our psyche.

"Because it has for the most part been derived from the immense diversity of the earth's resources, technology can be said to participate in the relationship we have with nature itself. One way of looking at technology is that it is the end result of human intervention into nature. It is the final product which emerges from the use or abuse of nature. It is so pervasive and so dominant that it seems to have overtaken and subsumed nature unto itself. When I say "it" has, I mean, of course, it is we humans who have done this thing. Technology, which we have created, is so omnipresent and so powerful in our lives we have to ask ourselves this strange question: How do we relate to this thing we have made? What does it have to do with our relationship to nature? As urgent, What does it have to do with the human personality and the sense of "self" which is at its core?"  Dolores Brien

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