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Dangers of technology
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| While technology enables us to live the way we do, there are also many dangers to the way we use and misuse technology. | ||
| Some dangers are greater than others, from rogue terrorists unleashing an nuclear bomb in a crowded city, to a chemical or biological attack, to electronic identity fraud and theft, to global pollution and climactic change. | ||
| The way we use technology comes at a price | ||
| The way in which societies choose to use technology comes at a price. In some former socialist states, the cost of decades of environmental vandalism is thousands of kilometres of “dead zones” where life and agriculture cannot survive. In developed western countries, the air pollution in urban centres is silently and prematurely killing its residences. | ||
| In modern computer commerce, the internet and global network is of finance is facing a growing threat from cyber-theft and cyber-attack. | ||
| The dangers threatening to render our technology useless | ||
| One of the greater dangers facing technology as a whole is the way in which it has been developed for use with power sources and fuel sources such as petroleum. | ||
| The worlds dependence on petroleum, cheap and abundant as it has been, threatens to destabilize every global economy and push the world into deep recession. | ||
| The greatest danger of technology- how we think about it and design it | ||
| Of all the dangers of technology that have been raised to date, the most common and by far the greatest is the substandard thinking that scientists, inventors, manufacturers and users apply to the creation and deployment of technology. | ||
| Simply, too much technology is over engineered, poorly constructed for power efficiency, unable to be self-contained and just not efficient. | ||
| While nature shows a great variety of perpetual machines, our thinking is locked into debates over closed and open machines and an unwillingness to learn from natures simplicity and specialization of design. | ||
| Our thinking has complicated space exploration, it has complicated the search for new energy alternatives, it has greated unreliable and bug riddled software, it has created "sick" office buildings and homes. | ||
| If humanity is to survive, then it is not technology that needs to change, but the fundamental thinking that is applied to create it in the first place. | ||
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