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~fungmungus

I recall reading once (and I'll likely not do it the full service here) that any advancing technology inevitably comes with a "give and take." It is important to realize that progress has costs and further that costs, in occasions, may render the progress useless, or create an actual obstacle.

I like to think of automatic doors at stores. Sure it allows for hand free access, and it is definitely a boon for physically impaired. But if the mechanism running the door, or the sensor need to activate it, fails, then the door becomes useless (fortunately there are manual overrides, but the point remains). Simple manual doors are incredibly old technology, but they remain reliably functional. In many cases I can see the same with cords.

And hey, it makes for a broader nice metaphor as well.

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~rosie88 wrote (thread):

yes it does make for a great metaphor, it is how I read it and why I responded thus.

The way the world is, what I mean is, pollution of our air, water, food, etc. we have become a planet where the next step would be to have automatons, we used to be a species tied to the earth and our cultures now we have become a hot mess of "cordless" drones.