Comment Don't be a Neo-ludite but also don't be a Feringi! (Score 2) 107
Its just as dangerous to worship tech as it is fear it.
The real question when you look at technology has to be if the current culture is capable of understanding it(technologically, economically, historically, ethically, and morally) and therefore aware of how it could be used for bad and when people are making false claims of its use. When you look at Genetically Modified Oraganisms we something even more dangerous happening. We see a government, the US, not informing its people that they are eating GMOs. The US government assumes that the food is safe but has done no studies to prove or disprove this. They are also making blind claims of ecosystem safety but have done no tests or studies. These are the kind of arrogent actions we can see from history that lead to very undesirable results. Think of DDT. The government promised it was safe, and strayed it everywhere. Later we come to find DDT moving up the food chain and in higher and higher concentrations. In Eagle's it causes the shells to be thin and the eggs die. That lead to the near extinction of the Bald Eagle.
Or think Agent Orange.
Appearantly we have not learned any lessons and are throwing caution to the wind in the name of profit.
Its like we are freaking Feringi.
The real question when you look at technology has to be if the current culture is capable of understanding it(technologically, economically, historically, ethically, and morally) and therefore aware of how it could be used for bad and when people are making false claims of its use. When you look at Genetically Modified Oraganisms we something even more dangerous happening. We see a government, the US, not informing its people that they are eating GMOs. The US government assumes that the food is safe but has done no studies to prove or disprove this. They are also making blind claims of ecosystem safety but have done no tests or studies. These are the kind of arrogent actions we can see from history that lead to very undesirable results. Think of DDT. The government promised it was safe, and strayed it everywhere. Later we come to find DDT moving up the food chain and in higher and higher concentrations. In Eagle's it causes the shells to be thin and the eggs die. That lead to the near extinction of the Bald Eagle.
Or think Agent Orange.
Appearantly we have not learned any lessons and are throwing caution to the wind in the name of profit.
Its like we are freaking Feringi.
