Dark Underbelly of Technology, an article in the Wired News, gives us considerations on how technology matters our human lives. It is a two edged knife that can be used in many ways, and resulted in many forms. When technology has been deployed appropriately, it means a lot to us. It is part of thing contributing to making the world a better place.
The internet, used intelligently, can be a terrific research tool, an effective
guardian of free speech and the sharing of information, plus it opens an entire
world to people who might otherwise be shut out.
…for one thing, human beings are not meant to go as fast as modern technology compels them to go… Technology, specifically computer technology, was going to help the environment, too, by eliminating the need for paper and saving all those trees. A few more trees may be standing, somewhere, but as landfills fill up with junked monitors, CPUs and printers (many perfectly functional but discarded simply because something more way-cool came along), it’s hard to see where the environment — your environment, incidentally — has benefited much.
Web sites of an American citizen that promote people to commit suicide in Kampot province is yet a debate for Cambodia.
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“Anything that diminishes the value of a single human being poses a threat to a rational, humane society”
…says the Wired writer, who defends humanity, but cloaks his antiquated, sexist, narcissistic ignorance with contrite cliched nostagia, embellished with a laptop and latte— thereby dismissing contemporary human beings altogether.
All knives are inherently 2-sided; alas, a knife unwittingly poisoned, will nonetheless contaminate all it cuts.
You’re painfully correct, ThaRum, “things” do not pose “threats.”
Propelled by ignorance or intent, only people use or abuse: (1)privileges, (2)power and (3)podium.
I think that coquettish overpaid tech writer shows how easily he can abuse all 3 — while cushioning his own alienation in blatant personal superiority, via his reserved space by-the-column-inch commentary.
That purile, self-indulgent, wellspring from the overfed, American editorial illuminates that the “dark underbelly” exists in the head, not the keyboard.
Sad to admit, but rather cathartic to demonstrate, it exists in all of us.
Having pontificated this, I’ll now return trek to the boondox via mule. Give that Wired man a whiskey cigarette…