Genesis
Response
Penultimate
Finale
April 12th, 2021
Technology and tradition are not at odds because they are in different businesses entirely. Tradition means civilization—the ideas, intellectual and moral and religious, that we have inherited from our fathers and forefathers. Technology means engineering, with an emphasis on computers. When the Israelis refurbished the Second Temple in the last centuries before the turn of the millennium (producing what Tacitus called "the most beautiful building in the world"), technology served tradition—as it did when the French built Chartres and the British built Scott's extraordinary Liverpool Cathedral, or when FL Wright, the greatest of US architects, built a state-of-the-art synagogue in the 1950s. Technology couldn't possibly be at odds with tradition, because tech tells us how to build certain machines and structures, and tradition doesn't care how we build anything, so long as each thing's function and appearance satisfy traditional needs.
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