The Advent of Technology

One thing I always say, 'Technology is great, as long as it works.'  Over the past thirty years I have been actively involved in the technology field as a computer engineer and watching the technological advances has been amazing!  In almost every market the advances, especially in technology, have been monumental.  They have made lives and profit so much longer (larger), easier (less work) and enjoyable and a whole lot more.  With every upside though there is a downside, and unfortunately we do not always look at or consider the downside of things.  No as a civilization, as a whole, we are looking for the 'biggest bang for our buck.'  While many 'people' are just looking for big bangs with more bucks!

Too often in society all we are looking for is a solution, an answer.  Far too often we accept solutions and answers without considerations or thought of the consequences or the outcome, until we realize we have to atone for our wrongs, or at least try.   For years, many of lived with the luxury of the petrochemical boom and now we pay the price, and still we bitch about it.  Look at cell phones and the potential for health issues but the cell phone technology continues to grow.  Microwaves, medicine, energy, virtually every field can brag about the advances and changes they have made to increase our productivity. 

Answers and solutions, are fine and well, all needed for the change required of the world and society.   Looking around I see so much of the aftermath of quick fixes and have to wonder what will occur with the ones put into place today?  The windmill farms, the banks of solar panels, the dumping of chemicals into the ocean to 'correct' our mistake for an an oil well 'leak.'  What will the outcome, the consequences of these things be; to our planet now, in the short term and in long term when we are gone?  Just look at all the ghost towns of recent years!  Built by our ancestors, the hulks now remain for us.  Who is responsible for the cleanup?  The waste disposal?  The explanation to people?  Who profited from it all?

Quick solutions do not equate instant solutions.  Often time though more expense, more waste and more loss.