Wayne from Woodstock, IL

Okay, so here’s the deal. Although this cat is out there and definitely has issues, I can’t help but wonder if culture’s ’surrender’ to technology could have an underbelly that might be worth examining.

Perhaps my curiosity might be better framed in this question, “how can we distill a best practice for technology that could help us optimize for the possibility of what could be, and at the same time make sure not to open a Pandora’s box that would lead to certain destruction?”

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  1. navymig@aol.com wrote::

    Interesting view held by many people. Technology could eventually be used in the ways he talks about. Think RFID tags and their lack of any really substantial legislation or airport watch lists without much transparency in how people are placed on them. Stephen King makes an interesting point about technology and our love of it in The Stand with how all the technophiles seemed to gravitate to Vegas and the man in black.

    This is of course only one possible future. Our job as citizens is to be educated on what is going on around us and ensure that as technology evolves, it is monitored and applied in ways that benefit humanity rather than allow its use to coral, control, and coerce the masses.

    Education is power, and everyone needs more of it.

    Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 5:05 pm #