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environmentally responsive guided objects, ERGO It's always possible to imagine bad and worse scenarios. Fear is always available, and can be applied to any situation.
Believing that technology is the tool of an "evil" system, or that it facilitates "evil" is not healthy for the believer or anyone else. Naturally, we are all aware of the power of tools and especially modern "smart" systems. How can we trust anything? We can imagine how things could be as bad as we can imagine!
I've decided, even at the risk of being naive, that I must not fear the machine, fear the network, fear anything.
We living beings all basically want the same outcome- happiness.
Having convenient tools help us actualize that outcome is a good thing. Just because we can imagine some deep dark conspiracy of "evil", behind the scenes, deceiving and manipulating us, doesn't mean that there is any such thing.
Nor, of course, that there isn't. Since we can't know, let's just enjoy all of our cool gadgets while being happy... Although, I'm also beginning to feel as though the best decision will be exiting the information super-highway :) If y'all haven't read it, The Joy Makers is a pretty fun sci-fi exploration of technological routes to happiness, and possible downsides to "plugging in". |