Making a Difference: Brian Eno

Eno discusses how the present culture has changed in how science is controlling intelligence more than it ever has in the past century. Instead of listening to one artist, you can shuffle them and juxtapose two at the same time on smart phones and computers. If you are having a conversation with someone about rock music, there is no point of having that conversation  if the recipient doesn't know who David Bowie is.

Eno discusses how since he was a child, he has asked himself the same question of, "why am I doing this?" Eno believes in the importance of people surrendering to this technology is a way of empowerment for the individual.

Eno mentions how a lot of artists like himself have a way of obsessing over the experience of human feelings but it is these feelings that are essential in coming up with challenges for the present technology. If technology expands and becomes increasingly dominant in the marketplace for artists, there becomes a need to constantly migrate over to the next cutting-edge tool and so on. The methodology of surrender seems unappealing when compared to the methodology of relying on computers and phones because the materialistic payoff might have much to recommend with profitable jobs and business solutions; meanwhile surrender should not be disregarded since, it is an essential and necessary part in challenging scientific ideas.