I am not your average box
What is inside a black box? Is there a difference in regards to a "blackened box?" What does it mean to be a black box in this day and age? To be or not to be a black box, that is the question. An idea of perfection, a mass of indestructibility?
What is a black box? A black box is something that is shrouded in mystery. There are so many ways to read into it The simple explanation for a black box is the idea of a utopian perfection, or an unachieved reality. But these ideas can be redundant and self-incriminating - are we reading too much into "nothing?"
I was reading an article on how one of Minnesota's inventions included the "black box." An airplane flight transcript recorder, to be exact. I think that in this context, the definition of a black box is no longer just some unattainable utopia or even all of the allusions we talked about.
The theory, then, is a black box is just that, a black box. It is an indestructible "memory" of the elevator, it is what would survive in case the elevator would crash. If an the elevator loses "its soul" when it comes crashing down, then could a black box be a safeguard against lost of memory of the elevator? This black box, in this context then, would be the memory of the elevator; it would be what was left of the elevator that once was. Would it be a transcript of what the elevator had been?
When airplanes crash, the thing that survives unscathed is the black box. It is the transcript of the flight, a recording of the past. It is invulnerable, because the tapes inside contain the past. It is untouchable to change. However, is it really invulnerable? Now, in regards to a "blackened box" - is it a box that has been scarred? Is it the remains of an airplane's tape box then a blackened box? Is it then a box that has been forged in tempering fire? Scarred on the outside? Perhaps it is black just for that reason, then-so it will not show any scars.
What is a black box? A black box is something that is shrouded in mystery. There are so many ways to read into it The simple explanation for a black box is the idea of a utopian perfection, or an unachieved reality. But these ideas can be redundant and self-incriminating - are we reading too much into "nothing?"
I was reading an article on how one of Minnesota's inventions included the "black box." An airplane flight transcript recorder, to be exact. I think that in this context, the definition of a black box is no longer just some unattainable utopia or even all of the allusions we talked about.
The theory, then, is a black box is just that, a black box. It is an indestructible "memory" of the elevator, it is what would survive in case the elevator would crash. If an the elevator loses "its soul" when it comes crashing down, then could a black box be a safeguard against lost of memory of the elevator? This black box, in this context then, would be the memory of the elevator; it would be what was left of the elevator that once was. Would it be a transcript of what the elevator had been?
When airplanes crash, the thing that survives unscathed is the black box. It is the transcript of the flight, a recording of the past. It is invulnerable, because the tapes inside contain the past. It is untouchable to change. However, is it really invulnerable? Now, in regards to a "blackened box" - is it a box that has been scarred? Is it the remains of an airplane's tape box then a blackened box? Is it then a box that has been forged in tempering fire? Scarred on the outside? Perhaps it is black just for that reason, then-so it will not show any scars.
posted by W_kh at
11/22/2004 12:19:00 AM
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