by Outcast_Searcher » Thu 01 Apr 2010, 20:55:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')Not all technology is equally enjoyable, though. I'm not convinced it's a bad idea to be afraid of some of it.
Ludi, I think you have a good point here. I would use the word cautious, instead of afraid, as far as technology. It is the consequences of technology we use carelessly in pursuit of greed and rapid growth (at seemingly ANY cost) that makes me very afraid.
Take GM foods. Early in the debate, there were rational concerns about potential environmental consquences, etc. My thought was to be CAUTIOUS, to investigate first, to use science to consider what safeguards should be used. But no, fast growth and big profit advocates just shrilly call anyone who wants to be careful a nutjob as this might delay a dollar in profit somewhere.
To me, the whole AGW debate is another example. But no, pausing to learn or develop better science or technologies to LEARN HOW TO INTELLIGENTLY deal with the issues (or not) would hamper global growth in the short term, and we can't have THAT.
And so it goes.