Mr. Benjamin is the man who talks about the wonder of technology and how different it is from our time. Like the kite thing from the olden times when technology was still being invented, as we all know that the kite was made to check the weather which soon gave the idea for knowing the weather machine and to predict the weather. Benjamin’s work basically gave a new meaning to what the future can be working on and what people can be doing to help others. I agree that the fact is that benjamin has been doing a lot of great things but the thing is was that before technology wasn’t that much advance so they try to make their own thing by scratch and/or doing manual labor because there was that much tech from before. I think the fact that benjamin was using a kite to check the weather is a perfect example of what’s going in the sky or what’s going on tomorrow because like I said we used to do manual labor before we had a lot of technology. So benjamin did a good thing for everyone even though it took a while for people to work with technology.

When technology started to expand throughout the time we started to get  to the fact that technology is started to improve our daily lives. A weather machine was the first thing that was made for everyone next was cell phones, computers, tv’s, cars and so much more, this technology helps us by making sure that we are all prepared and to make sure that do what we are supposed to do to improve the world. So as people made their own things for their purpose and for their own fantasy or for anything else like something creative for people to see and/or hear like on any social media platform and it can be a great experience for people for the future. People might just think that technology is ridiculous and that it can be infecting our brains but I’ve been thinking without it I wouldn’t be able to create essays and or do so much more with my work as a producer, so I say let’s keep on creating some new technology. Benjamin may have shown how different it was on how technology was from before and how it is from now but you can tell that he meant in a surprise kind of way because of course, we are always surprised about the fact that we are making our life’s so much better. We should all be glad that we can have these new technologies because we can use them in so many things that will improve our lives and make the thing’s that we want to create for the world to see.

When I saw what benjamin said about technology from before and what it is like now I started to think about something else and it was music what it was like before. As we all know is that music is something we all love, we listen, we feel emotions, we feel inspired by the people who made them, but we wonder what it was like before the technology we use to create music. Benjamin words made me think and realize something, the way we think of technology now is like how we think of music we hear now, the moment we play the instruments we think on what we can use to record that sound so that the whole world can hear the music. That was when the time recording music began and it was a great idea for all musicians, bands, producers, all the people who love creating music, that was why Benjamin made me realize that his words were like a comparison to music. I think that it is great for people to realize how those who made their first technology over the years can make people realize it’s a similarity to what we have now and to what we always talk about over the years like how people from back in the days make music and just like what Benjamin said in his words about the technology to be used in those times years ago. I am glad that I can have the experience of knowing about what music was like and what reference they have to other people’s history.

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  • December 17, 2021 at 7:45 pm
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    The notion of Aura in Benjamin’s essay does a fantastic job at holding the entire text together in a way that makes it’s impregnable and impossible to separate aura from art. and his idea of diminishing returns in the value of art when it’s mass produced makes perfect sense but i do not agree that it completely rids the piece of art from all of it’s aura. for example, when i listen to a Frank Sinatra song on spotify it still holds it’s feeling of grandeur and panache, when i look at Da vinci’s Salvator Mundi i still get the same feeling of sanctity and purity as it was meant to convey, and when i look at a picture of the david i can still appreciate the level of detail in it as i would do if i was standing infront of it. aura does diminish, but it does not perish

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