During today's discussion, it came to my attention that we began speaking how in the future there is a slightly great possibility that robots might take over and we will begin this war between technology and human race. If you think of this state of war in a more radical content this war already began. Sometimes technology strikes againist us and we try to fix it to get it running again. There are various fields where technology does not always take orders; airplane crashes, space shuttle mission failures, failure of hospital equipments to treat patients,etc.
When we speak of technology taking over our lives, we must take the world as a whole which would be impossible to do. As I have brought this up before, there are various regions of the world maybe majority of the world where technology has not touched and is not capable of touching because of environmental conditions. North Pole and desserts of Africa and Middle East are some of the examples of various other earthly conditions.
Yes, its very good to look at various uses of technology especially how it can be destructive but our human lives are very fragile. I TOTALLY DISAGREE we are all cyborgs. I think Harraway is sort of caught up with the state of men and how they are all robots with no emotions. Im sorry for her experience with her husband and it did not work out. Going back to the fragile human nature, a small disease which is unknown to human knowledge can wipe out a whole human race. A small example of such crises like bird flu can be one of the greatest example of such.
In the eastern world culture, eastern europe, middle east and asia, many people believe something called kader(destined future) your future is already written out for you and you will leave your lives exactly as it states. There are so many other risks in our lives which can end all of our lives in seconds and at this stage especially when we know a lot more about the world, it would be wrong to state that technology will be the main factor to do so. Many people rather majority of the people are not exposed to technology as much as the people in the states. Their cultures, histories, or environmental factors do not allow them become one with technology but disengaged bodies which humans see it as a tool. Its very valuable to learn to not become the toy of technology especially as the citizens of the Western world.
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