In class we've discussed the idea that technology is always changing, and that every day it grows in leaps and bounds beyond our own understanding. Today even we went over the fact that the creation of the atomic bomb was set into motion as soon as its inventors soon dreamed it up, perhaps even before. It would not have mattered if they had stopped production, the bomb would have eventually found its way into this world and into the hands of its people. Technology, like many things, has a way of pushing through boundaries.
This raises a whole host of questions. Could technology itself be alive? Does it in fact help, hinder, or ruin our lives? And, should it ever come down to it, could the wondrous and deadly powers of technology ever be stopped?
People worry about so called "minorities" invading our country but, years from now, what if we ourselves were a minority? At the moment it sounds as if it were ripped from the pages of science fiction but, as has been the case, technology has a way and a life of its own. We've got MP3 players and phones no bigger than our palms and tiny robots named ASIMO paving the way in robotic technologies. How long before the works of Aasimov and Gibson are more fact than fiction? Is it conceivable that technology could spin out of our control?
I believe that that is a topic everyone must grapple with on their own.
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