Posted on 11/01/2014 12:08:57 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Edited on 11/01/2014 12:27:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
So we should let people own atom bombs because to ban them would be unconstitutional?
Like it or not, those of you who worship technology will come to realize that technology will reduce your freedom.
You can act now by planning on how much of which freedoms to loose, so as to preserve more of those freedoms most important to you—or you can just let the process play out willy-nilly, which will be a disaster.
And which in fact has already been happening to the lower income and less powerful among us, whose low-level jobs—which jobs for many families are the last stop before homelessness and public relief—are helpless as their jobs are replaced by technology.
The level of jobs being replaced either by machine or by offshoring, which technology has made increasingly practical, will throw you out of work, too.
And faster than most anyone realizes.
Now is the time to devise ways to manage technology, so that people control technology, and not the other way around.
Why is it ridiculous to remind you of examples of government control over use of certain technologies?
The time is come for when the government needs to control the internet in the same way stoplights and traffic laws control automobiles for the benefit of all people.
The technological revolution requires controls, the same way the industrial revolution created the need for new kinds of controls over production and use.
The internet has become a success because government has largely stayed out of it. I cannot believe someone on a Conservative website is arguing for MORE government intervention.
Simply unbelievable.
In life, there is a difference between how you'd like the world to be and how it really is.
One must learn that new circumstances require changes in thinking.
Sure, it would be nice if everyone could be free to do whatever they feel like doing, but in actual practice technology in the hands of individuals, governments, and business, is magnifying the effects of doing whatever anyone or anything does, to the point that it's interfering with everyone and everything else.
Therefore we must agree on rules that limit our use of technology, lest using technology to increase our freedom is done at the expense of reducing someone else's freedom--and vice versa.
Depends on how you define success.
By certain measures the refining and marketing of sugar and corn syrup is considered a success too, even though their ingestion slowly cripples and kills people.
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