Indeed that was the question that almost got answered in a lethal way earlier as I drove back from picking up some shopping.
A young woman, busy texting on her mobile, pushing a buggy with child in front of her, started crossing the road in front of me without looking. Thank you Saab for your Anti-Lock Brakes. And sorry that my horn woke your sleeping baby. I guess we should be glad that it did wake up. A few more feet forward and it wouldn't have anymore.
Quite a dark start to any blog about technology, but in a grim way explains a fundamental problem that society is having with the advances that technology provides. It seems that technology is trying to become first in our lives instead of the more important things.
Will technology ever become the death of us, so to speak? Continued reliability certainly gives strength to that argument. Anti virus software company's are getting increasingly concerned about the extent that a virus could cripple society.
A virus that could infect your local bread manufacturer, or pharmaceutical companies with lethal doses would certainly affect the things we buy. Or what about a virus that could infect traffic control systems, air craft navigation systems or infect fresh water with sewage?
Let's not get to distressed and abandon all hope in technology, or shun it to an extreme that we dismiss it for a horse and cart, but let's keep it firmly in it's rightful place, use it as the tool it's designed to be, and keep our real life ahead of us and focus on the more important things.
No comments:
Post a Comment