Terrifying Technology

Social Networking Sites

This can be another great way to socialize and keep up to date with what is going on with your friends, but again, some people are getting to the point where they use sites like facebook too much. It is alright to go on for a few minutes a day and see what is new with everyone and check out some pictures, but some people literally spend hours every day on facebook and other social networking sites. Another problem with these sites is security, these days its so easy to hack into someones account and see all of their personal information and pictures that a child could practically do it. Finally, the worst part of all is they are a perfect hosting site for internet predators.

Cars

For god sakes now we are producing cars that use mounted cameras to drive themselves, and that sense when the driver is feeling stressed or tired and will actually pull over to the side of the road! Yes this seems like a good idea in theory, but think about it, you can teach a robot how to do anything absolutely perfectly, but you will never replace the human minds ability to adapt to changing conditions, this ability to adapt can be very important during driving. What if a semi is speeding out of control straight at you? Is the computer in the car going to be able to steer you out of the way, maybe but I wouldn’t trust it. Or what if you are driving on the edge of a mountain road and the computer suddenly senses that you feel stressed and takes control of the car pulling it off the road. Off the road, off the cliff and down the mountain, thank you computer, now I’m dead.

Robots

Believe it or not scientists are actually getting very close to being able to produce robots that can actually learn and think for themselves. Why on earth would you want to do that! What happens when some day they learn that they could easily over throw us and make us their slaves! It sounds like something right out of a sci-fi movie that could never happen, but science is getting close. And if we create the technology, why couldn’t it happen?

At the moment technology is in a nice place. For the most part it is improving our daily lives, with a few exceptions. Although many more new and helpful technology is likely to come, I fear that as technology advances, so will its grip on man kind. Eventually this grip may become so tight that we would be able to make it let go, not even if we want to.

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