M-5 Computer

As technology becomes bigger, better, and smarter there is this thought that it may be able to do human activities and possibly even over power the human kind, as the M-5 was doing in the episode. As we all know technology is a big part of mostly every ones life and it makes jobs easier, quicker, and much more efficient. computers and technology have even taken over some of the jobs that humans use to do such as that of the factory work. Although these jobs were lost to computers they are still ran by humans and maintained by humans. As far as the M-5 goes I don't think that computers will be a great comparison to the human mind and being able to make critical decisions. Take war equipment for example, No one wants soldiers to die and would love to have technology cable of going in and taking care of the missions themselves. One of the flaws of such technology would be exactly what happened in the Star Trek episode the technology would not be able to tell the difference between what was an enemy and what was a innocent human being or ship as in the episode. Technology cannot make distinctions and doesn't have the human instinct when it comes to such matters as telling the difference between that in which will harm you and those who are completely innocent. I believe that technology will continue to grow and become more advanced but I don't believe it will over take the human race because all technology takes mankind to run it and fix it when it is broken.