When do we start to create technology that is us human beings worthy? (en)

The quiet, but constant buzzing of electricity is a ubiquitous phenomenon of our age. LEDs, Computers, TVs, high-voltage lines and transformers. Living inside a culture that is addicted and completely depended on electricity adds another layer to our multifaceted experiential landscape. Wherever we go. It is quite a different experience to be in a house without electric wires in the ceilings, with no connection to the grid, surrounded by an electrically, unaltered environment compared to just the same setting but with cables in the walls, sockets in every room, powerlines connecting the house and spanning the surrounding outdoors. A subtle but profound layer of silence joins in these places our perception, not adding anything particularly observable but creating more space for everything else and effecting our physical, mental and emotional state in a soften, appeasing way. This makes me wondering. Why is it that natural sounds never sound unpleasant or disturbing even when they are loud? We often even rejoice about the loud noise of rain and thunder and find it calming and helping us sleep. Artificial sounds on the other hand seem to always have a distressing 'taste' to seem, however quiet they might be.

I want to connect this to the question of the future of technology and nature and how they could be brought into harmony, how the chasm between these different worlds could bridged. As I argued elsewhere I currently see a new focus on aesthetics as the only way to bring technology in harmony with (our) nature. This would mean that in designing and developing technology, no longer the rational values of efficiency, gain in power, and compatibility with mathematical tools would be of leading relevance. Instead aesthetic, emotional values, such as the notion of (naturalistic) beauty looking upon a tool or the feeling of resonance, of affection, of love towards something that one created would give us the main direction of how to design something. Bringing this together with the issue of electronics, the priority to our sense of beauty and meaning in the design of our environment must not only be focused on the visual sense. All senses must be considered. An environment that feels like home is not just 'good-looking'. It smells pleasant when we breath, it feels delightful when we touch it, it creates an inviting atmosphere and an all-encompassing feeling in us of wanting to stay here, to stay sensitive with this object, with this environment. This feeling is what nature gives us. It makes us wanting to be even more sensitive, to see more, to feel deeper, to explore every facet of life. So if we want not to destroy the quality of life on earth with our technology, dulling the experience of being human, than the objects of our creation must meet the same aspiration.