Some of the deepest questions confronting us arise from the power of technology and the ways in which the use of this power has destructured traditional codes and reconstituted our vision. These questions confront everyoneengineers, natural scientists, students of the humanities, and the social sciences. One does not have to be a specialist in any machine-connected technology to see and try to understand these questions for, if the description I gave earlier is correct, we ourselves, in an important sense, have become technologies.
Of course, that is not all that we are or ever will be. And to imagine what it is possible now for us to be is the most urgent task we have to perform. The humanities, with their traditional deep emphasis on the imagination, retain tremendous power to help with that task. How to unleash the power that is in the humanities; to imagine our present possibilities is itself no easy problem. It is this problem that all our traditional learning should address.
Louis Hammer (1986)
Three Poems by Louis Hammer from The Book of Games (1985):
4.The world is getting larger
it is beginning to roll
it is too large to hold
if you let go it will roll away
if you hold on
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