• When compared, the two film clips help illuminate a key question for this course: How has our relationship to technology changed over time? It seems that over time we have become more dependent on technology. This is ironic in that our constant push to advance technology is based on our belief that technology will set us free. But has it? Or has it made our lives busier than ever, just in a different way? For example, I lived for a year in a dry cabin (read: no indoor plumbing) for a year. I had to spend time hauling water for myself and my dog team. You would think that with all of the technology available in the other aspects of my life, I would have had plenty of extra time for my new-found chore. Not so. Squeezing in this task was a struggle as technology had increased the workload I was under at my job. In fact, hauling water became for me a happily anticipated activity as it was so primitive and physical. It was the antithesis of the technology running rampant over the other areas of my life.