Letters to the Editor
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re: dinosaur and dinosaur ?
dinosaurs right, this stuff is all about the past, the effects of technology are the past, the result, although gibson makes a good point about technology annointing itself. henry ford started making cars when there were no roads. if people would have gotten together and said, hey wait a minute, we're not ready for this, we could have saved a lot of trouble. but that's all bridges over the water, (which is the role of technology always, break something and then ride to the rescue by fixing it with more technology).
i think its possible technology will enable us to control the world, but then i see men in night goggles hooked up to drones twenty thousand feet in the air looking at the ground with telescopic lenses for pockets of evil directed by a President who just had his colon checked for specks of cancer, in his otherwise healthy body ( a metaphor for the nation he shephards).
the speaker of the house said she was in favor of expanding healthcare. neither she, nor the President understand, thats' not the problem, people getting sick is the problem.
bird flu and aids and bin laden haven't gotten out of hand in a while, thanks to this web of technology, yawn, but we are still an unhealthy culture which is what happens when the shock of new technology wears off. consider the epidemic of diabetes and autism, diseases formerly unknown to any degree, and something from which the President suffers, at least metaphorically.
the big problem being that once the growth of technology slows, the process is less able to react to it's own mistakes. much like an overzealous stock market, we are facing a technology crash, and on the downside of the curve things move much slower. there may be a thousand years of rethinking these things, sorting them out. it will be long, and very discouraging time.