Technology and Perception

Consider the following current reference:
http://tinyurl.com/yw6vm5

As a species we characteristically learn in terms of focus lighted or even newly realized by our emerging technology. In 1929, Soviet filmaker Dziga Vertov - art name meaning 'Spinning Top' - prepared a film called, Man with the Movie Camera. Before he was silenced, he celebrated the movie camera as perceptual artifact, itself changing reality and our acknowledgement of history as changing second-by-second within the camera's view and because of the camera's actuality. Further, whatever photographs have presently been taken of 1870, will for all history be the only photographs taken of 1870. There will never in history be photographs of 1770! To our minds, 1870 has a photographic-reality presence that 1770 will not develop. This window of appreciation is directly as a cybernetic synergy too often neglected in our present day consensus and fiction-dulled millieu. Let us appreciate technology and learn.