Technology Can Be A Good Thing

I had originally posted a couple of days ago, and after going over it again, I noticed that I steered away from the subject of "Technology", only to write about the short stories, and a couple of my personal experiences.

I'd like to revise this if it's okay. So, here I go.....

Technology is a good thing, but like all things in life, it depends on the person and/or people that invent and use the applications. I believe that most of us, as human beings have good intentions. It's just a shame sometimes, how one person can spoil the whole darned thing, and ruin it for everyone.

Let me go out on a limb here, and bring up the subject of identification. Not long ago, someone that's close to me was a victim of identity theft. That crime is not considered a "Violent Crime", and so the guilty party went unpunished. The case is still open, but it is on the back burner. Meanwhile, 72K later, we are still suffering. The woman that did the crime is still out enjoying her life I'm guessing, because we haven't seen a hide nor hair of her since she did this. She got away with it by getting her greedy, grubby, filthy fingers on a Company Credit Card. You know the kind. They send out cards randomly to entice you to spend your money. "We don't do plastic",....but apparently she had NO PROBLEM there! So, is Technology good? That's a hard one! Let's just say no, on that scenario.

Good can come from technology. In fact, technology is a wonderful, and most the time it's a wondrous thing. Just think of all the lives technology has saved! And let's not forget about how spoiled we are, either. There's alot of folks that couldn't do without it. We can take the subject of Technology down to the bare bottom. Fire. Although fire is one of Nature's natural resources, we use it with technology everyday. For example, heating up our concoctions in the beakers we use in our Laboratories everyday.

Transportion is another way of our world. Most of us couldn't get to Grandma's house, (although mine is in Heaven) if it were not for the combustible engine? But the "down" side of the combustible engine is pollution. There are many old and new idea's out there that tell us we don't have to use that pollution causing motor, that there are other mean's of transportation. I mean water and electricity for example. One Bureaucrat vs. the other Bureaucrat, and there we go...in a controversial debut. And in most cases, it all boils down to either votes or money. (In translation that means power.)

So in conclusion, technology is only as good as the people inventing it, and putting it to use. Now, HOW we put it to use is the question. In some cases we can actually say when, but it still has a line drawn in there. Good or Bad. I vote for the first option.