September 2, 2018
A woman dies in Arizona after being hit by a self-driving SUV. That is the first headline I saw this morning when opening my news feed. And I though, it is starting.
If you are reading this, you are on a computer, a tablet, a smart phone. We all have pieces of technology and we use them daily. We may work with them too.
If there is one constant with computers, it is the problems we have with them. They are fine, then an update comes along, and they do not work so well. Files that were “right there” cannot be accessed or look totally different after an update has been downloaded and installed. If we are of a certain age, we remember the “blue screen’. We knew then that the end for that machine was near. We learned to make backups of what was important to us as there was no guarantee that the next day, the machine would start without incident. Not much change here still.
And what about our smart phones? All good. Great even! Better cameras, better connectivity, more apps with each new generation. We are so proud of them. They are so useful to us. And we paid dearly for them. Then something happens. Not sure what but suddenly it is not working so nicely anymore. Before we know it, we are looking to replace that thing that became a piece of junk.
Technology is fun, fast, will save us time, will replace our memories and already replaced many of our workers, and is notoriously unreliable.
And now we are told to trust technology to drive us places. No human interaction. A computer controlling a vehicle.
And we are supposed to go for it? Why would that be? Why trust a computer with our lives?
Katrin L.
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