#CurrentlyReading #WORM #TheFirstDigitalWorldWar #MarkBowden OUR RACE WITH TECHNOLOGY It's really hard to believe that the technological world we currently live in, is barely young. It's quite an infant. We live in the early stages of technology. If you think of the people who helped create the tools we use today, the operating systems, the software, the hardware and other peripherals, these people are barely hitting sixty for an age. The World Wide Web as it is known, is actually a year younger than me, developed by Tim Burness-Lee in 1991 when the first two or three computers were connected and actually communicated in the US. And the speed at which Technology is being consumed, quicker than it is being innovated, is more than a scary thought. Our days depend on it. Our lives depend on the connectedness of technology. We live in an age of technology where, in order for businesses to stay open, they have to keep up with the technological times; in order for innovation to occur, it must occur with some conjunction to existing technology. It all comes down to our hunger for information. It's a human species natural instinct. To want to know. It's also a safety net. If I know, then I am safe. True technology has helped in a big way to move the human race forward, in terms of development and infrastructure. But is it pulling us back? Is it taking away our humanity? We sit behind a screen, with a veil of anonymity keeping us safe and we say things, very bad nasty things, to someone else who is sitting behind another screen, with their own veil of anonymity. Human to human interaction is being replaced by screen-veil-INTERNET-veil-screen interaction. Is that where we are headed? Or are we already there? Are we already robots living in between humans inconspicuously. Is this who we want to be? If so, I worry for our children, and their children. With the current exponential rate of growth of technology, my children will have robots for pets, and their children will have robots that look like living animals/humans for pets. I applaud the technology but despise what it is doing to our society today.
