Star Trek

The episode of star trek was very interesting. The idea of a computer taking over and controlling everything in the future could be true to a certain extent. We may allow computer's to do many of those jobs in which the computer in star trek did. For example, we have planes who use computers when flying on auto pilot. When it comes to the actual flying however, it is up to the pilot because the pilot ultimately is the one putting the destination and information into the computer. Auto-Pilot just does the easy part of the flying, but when it comes to piloting through turbulance and taking-off and landing, we still entrust that to the human person. I think as society we will never let it get to the point where computers run everything about us. We won't be taking orders from computers and computers won't be controlling our lives. Yes people may say they already control oour lives with the internet, ipods and cell phones, but that is because we allow them. In star-trek, it was involuntary. I am optimistic that as a human society we will never let computers get to powerful and smart that they control us, instead of us controlling them.