Welcome Alexa ?<\/p>\n
Or<\/p>\n
Beware Alexa !<\/p>\n
The flip side of technology.<\/p>\n
We won’t know till it hits us.<\/p>\n
We won’t know till it’s too late.<\/p>\n
Some have experienced it already.<\/p>\n
Alexa—what is it?<\/p>\n
Don’t ask me to explain its features, its good and bad, its wonders and worries.<\/p>\n
“It listens to me!”<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n
Makes me think of another twisted question (unrelated), “What is ‘is’?”<\/p>\n
Another analogy:<\/p>\n
“Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you’ve got.”<\/p>\n
Any technology big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take everything you’ve got.<\/p>\n
And now the inevitable—combine government and technology.<\/p>\n
More Government + More Technology = More Tyranny.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Weapons that get invented always get implemented.<\/p>\n
Technology is the ultimate dream weapon of today.<\/p>\n
Who will get to use it first, preemptively, effectively?<\/p>\n
A second use of nuclear weapons has been held in check by aversion to national suicide for those who have them.<\/p>\n
That is changing.<\/p>\n
And use of technology weapons leaves so much uncertainty about the enormous repercussions, that someone is going to try them without regarding the cost.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Back to Alexa:<\/p>\n
Without any leap of faith in conspiracy, the greatest danger is trusting the government in exchange for convenience.<\/p>\n
America did not become strong through inventions that make life easier, but through hardship endured by pioneers.<\/p>\n
We trade strength of character for fragile technology.<\/p>\n
We have not yet had the 911 of high tech—and we no longer have what it will take to deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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