Monday, February 4, 2008

Are they in the right hands?

After watching this clip, I realized a relation between violence and new objects with humans and their new technologies. You see a group of gorillas behaving in their natural habitat when suddenly a new unrecognized object crams their space. At first they rejected the novel thing and caused a ruckus over it. Later, they began to find comfort in it. Also towards the end, it showed one gorilla getting quite aggressive and violent with the bone he found. While he could have used it for better things.

New technology is a scary thing for people these days. Sometimes it's used for evil, while sometimes it truly aids us in life. At first people become hesitant to a new technological appliance, unsure of it's capabilities. They often feel threatened. Then they seem to find that the appliances do actually help them. Although the humans need to provide care for their expensive appliances. Just like the aggressive gorilla with the bone got violent it shows that when put into the wrong hands, technology can be used incorrectly thus harm others. For example, government agencies have invented ways to track down people, and access personal files. While terrorists may be able to get a hold of these classified documents. And when used improperly, harm awaits us.

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