It’s all just Cavepainting… From Lascaux to San Franciscaux

“Do you think that technology is further complicating
people’s lives?/How will the use of technology affect people’s lives in
the future? I’m a lousy futurist, so I’m loathe to make any big
predictions. But I will say this: I think that humans are pretty
unchanging, at their core. Technology steps in to fill in the rough
spots, but the things that are important to us, actually change very
little. I make Web sites now. If I had been alive one hundred years
ago, I would have been making newspapers. And a hundred years before
that, I would have been making books. Go back far enough and I’m sure I
would have been drawing on cave walls.

The technology may change, but the root desire stays the same: self-expression.”

Thanks to Tom for finding this…
Interview with Derek Powazek about Metafilter and community