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We soon take inventions for granted - take the telephone and its new counterpart the mobile phone now complete with Digital Camera and Sat Nav. It wasn’t all that long ago that we all wrote letters, got out our map and loaded Kodak film into our camera. Those were the days.
The real question is what effect this new technology has on us as people. In pigeons there are many who never read much or write much. These old communication skills have been usurped by modern instant mobile communication to the point where once common skills, such as letter writing are now so rare and there are many who no longer contemplate doing it and some who can no longer do it at all.
Yet - and here is the crunch - getting pigeons to fly home goes back thousands of years. Pigeon racing is in fact very old technology in a modern setting.
Now I am not a Luddite - I want the benefits of new technology as much as the next man but I also want us to retain the capacity to express complicated critical thoughts. I want the basic nature of pigeon racing and pigeon homing to be further explained so that we do in fact go forward in our understanding of how the pigeon works.
The trouble with new technology is it is so easy to use and so convenient our thoughts have also taken on the idea of convenience to the point where thinking itself has become convenient. Our attention span is now so short we have ended up unable to say anything.
Very few ideas about pigeons get a full airing over the mobile phone or even the house phone whether it be texting or conversation. What happens these days, as any one who has ever overheard someone speaking on a mobile phone in public, modern technology has made conversation moronic and this is affecting our lives as we all get to think we are enlightened just because we are modern. The facts are we are becoming less enlightened with every passing year. We have to first recognise this trend and secondly resist it. Why not write me a letter?
John Clements
The real question is what effect this new technology has on us as people. In pigeons there are many who never read much or write much. These old communication skills have been usurped by modern instant mobile communication to the point where once common skills, such as letter writing are now so rare and there are many who no longer contemplate doing it and some who can no longer do it at all.
Yet - and here is the crunch - getting pigeons to fly home goes back thousands of years. Pigeon racing is in fact very old technology in a modern setting.
Now I am not a Luddite - I want the benefits of new technology as much as the next man but I also want us to retain the capacity to express complicated critical thoughts. I want the basic nature of pigeon racing and pigeon homing to be further explained so that we do in fact go forward in our understanding of how the pigeon works.
The trouble with new technology is it is so easy to use and so convenient our thoughts have also taken on the idea of convenience to the point where thinking itself has become convenient. Our attention span is now so short we have ended up unable to say anything.
Very few ideas about pigeons get a full airing over the mobile phone or even the house phone whether it be texting or conversation. What happens these days, as any one who has ever overheard someone speaking on a mobile phone in public, modern technology has made conversation moronic and this is affecting our lives as we all get to think we are enlightened just because we are modern. The facts are we are becoming less enlightened with every passing year. We have to first recognise this trend and secondly resist it. Why not write me a letter?
John Clements
