A Sobering Reminder February 4, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos, Opinion.add a comment
Technology is all about realizing the possible. While this has one possible outcome of benefiting everyone, making our lives easier or more connected for example, another outcome springs from the failure to ask if we should, not if we can. Technology is morally neutral, not intrinsically ennobling the human condition. Take for example the article linked below from MSNBC outlining hacker attacks on electrical utilities. Networks allow us unprecedented access and control, but that access and control itself is a point of vulnerability. Sometimes solving one problem exposes underlying problems we have yet to solve.
