Enslaving Ourselves With High Tech

EVERY FORM OF TECHNOLOGY every invented by humans has been used by humans to destroy and enslave each other, it could be argued. Bows, arrows, guns, knives. American conservatives believe that universal gun ownership would usher an era of violence free human harmony, or they pretend to believe this, but either way, its only a mental aberration. Take drones, for instance. Flying self guided smart rockets that can destroy anyone, anywhere. Soon dronew will be programmed to make their own decisions. Can you imagine our neighborhoods then? Or maybe you'd prefer not to. Then too, there's the famous implanted micro chip, voluntariy implanted just under the skin to give us instant access to information and communication, at first. When implanted micro chips become mandatory, beware. Big brother can now monitor you, and thus control you. Computer technology itself might one day enslave us all. Computers, ganging up on us, taking over the world. Or some computer borne virus. There was a time when the very notion of a computer beating a human being in chess was ludicrous, unthinkable. Then, along came Big Blue, and down went the Russian world chess champion. Now, I assume, any computer off the shelf at Wal Mart can beat anyone anytime, or soon will. There is little doubt that our machines, and thus our weapons, are becoming bigger, more powerful, more deadly. Our level of thinking, our level of wisdom, seems unchanged, or maybe even in retrograde. Albert Einstein was once asked to write a message to be placed in a time capsule, to be opened hundreds of years in the future. He wrote: if you have not become kinder and more compassionate than we were, may the devil take you."