Monday, April 14, 2008

i'm gonna tell you anyway

I am going to be missing my freshman composition class this Thursday due to the fact that i will be in Chattanooga, TN for orientation for next year. Before my departure TB told me that the class will be discussing science and when it's necessary and when it's overkill. What a good topic to discuss. There are many ideas and views to this topic. It is very much a grey area where the perfect answer is different for everybody yet it affects everybody.
What I think is a simple yet effective answer but not solution to the problem is when we start asking ourselves if it is overkill then its overkill. The more I think about this answer the more I realize that its simplistic nature is complex in its roots.
My answer to such a controversial question is exactly what many would expect, controversial. I believe that technology has caused more corruption than it has good. It starts a repeating cycle that cannot be stopped without a massive die out of the earth’s population. With all this science and/or technology good causes have come such as medicinal advances and electricity however bad things have come such as computers, television, and the internet. These are things that we all love but have caused massive corruption. If outside the spectrum looking in at the United States viewing how technology has corrupted society there are many things to take notice too. One thing to take notice to is how the United States has the most cars per household out of anywhere in the world. Consequently, the United States has become so accustomed to driving and riding everywhere they go that walking or any form of exercise has become virtually extinct and know the United States is the most obese country in the planet. This is due to the domino effect of technology.
I do not want to let my strong opinion on the subject take control of me and began to let my opinions run wild while loosing track of any factual basis. Early I stated that technology has begun a vicious circle that as far as I am concerned is the beginning of the end. This circle starts at the beginning of the earth and lets just say for visual purposes that one revolution of the circle is one year in time. Well as technology has grown over time the earths population has grown this is obvious yet extremely important to note. Technology has grown in ways known and unknown to everyday citizens but most noticeably technology has grown in medicinal advances, computers, engineering, etc. The earth’s population has gained so much numerical value due to technology such as medicinal advances. The earth’s population has grown so big that in order to sustain the earth’s population we must keep advancing technology which in turn will push population growth which in turn will push technological advances and on and on it goes, round and round. Eventually as already predicted by the discovery channel and national geographic the world will get so advanced that everything will be run by the internet to whole new extreme. Technology will be so advanced that there will be an elevator to the moon, NASA mission to mars, cars that drive themselves, hologram pets that can communicate with humans. The world will become so extremely dependent on this technology that it would only take one internet crash for the whole world to go into trauma. At this point everybody will be so dependent on the internet that the one time the internet crash everybody will panic. This crash will be the beginning the of the end for the earth. The root of all evils.

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