Last night I watched the anime film Steamboy, the latest film from Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo. The film itself showed a lot of potential and sounded like a cool story, but ultimately fell flat from lack of a cohesive story. The end result was some nice visuals and interesting ideas that lead nowhere.

The film may not have been that great, but the theme is still one of my favorites ... the conflict between technology and humanity. I have always thought that how humans have managed the relationship between technology and humanity is in many ways the defining characteristic of our species. I think Einstein summed up the state of the relationship nicely ...

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."