Generating Time; Impossible

Our brains are this gift that set us apart from other species. Yet, much like the workings of technology, when abused can produce negative effects. The brain functions much like a computer with electrical signaling of inputs and outputs. In this day and age, we are constantly receiving stimuli and commutating responses via our own technological wiring; the CNS and PNS. The hard drive is our physical components, and the software is our mental processes. The problem with this analogy is that we are not computers, we are humans! However, we have embraced the technological efficiencies and attempt to apply them to our most humanely interactions.

In the reading, "High-Tech Stress" Rifkin points out that humans function on "myriad biological clocks that have been entrained, through the long period of evolution, to the rhythms and rotation of the earth". Computers do not follow this time manner; "today's computer culture operates on a nanosecond time gradient". Nonetheless, we struggle against the machine to be compatible with this high-tech speed. It is impossible! But this is how to get "close to the machine", to be lost in a transcendence of time. Computers defy time by taking functions beyond their manual limitations. Where humans once employed manual labor, they now work to mentally control the workings of the computer.

The negative effects that come with humans trying to match the capabilities of computers lie within our terminating condition. We are not indestructible. Human beings need compliance with our biological functions. We run on a much more intrinsic, natural pattern that computer manipulations cannot mimic. Yes the implications and advancement of the technological era can certainly benefit humans. But to engulf the entirety of the human connection to past present and future and functionalize this to a desired, set time clock is abuse. It abuses humans by generating time from time itself. This time is our time, neither created nor destroyed in essence. So to push "transcended time" by ways of computers onto humans is like pouring more water into a glass than it can hold. Mentally you can envision this, but by all physical rules this cannot be. Nor can humans continuously work on a time frame set by computers.