The benefits of technology

In a review of history, the history of the latter half of the twenty century, we can see the vast benefits that technology has had on society, economy, and people. The previous statement is so loaded with sarcasms that eve I'm a little ashamed. There is an epidemic of obesity. An epidemic mind you, not my words but the amass. One third of our children have been approached by a pedophilia on the internet for the purposes of cybersex (that statement is confusing in the extreme). A similar number have had "virtual" sexual contact with either those of their own age group or others. Their is currently, a battle in the supreme court regarding child pornography in the matter of digitally enhanced adults that are made to appear as though they are younger. There is another battle regarding the ownership of words themselves, music and evev parts of music. Our health is failing in general with an epidemic of (AMA's words) diabetics and worse, psychological disorders. Well, at least we've experienced the greatest economic expansion in history, right? Well, sort of. While there is a vastly greater amount of value in the economic system most of it is "virtual" being stock capital, trillions of it. And the rest, well almost all of that is debt. Home ownership is at an all time high. Average equity is at an all time low. We are heating up the planet with the half a billion or so motorized vehicles that are running and stressing the land with the 6.5 billion hungry mouths. The volume of communication taking place has increased 1000 fold. The amount of knowledge being communicated has dropped to zero (I don't consider math to be knowledge as humans can be knowledgeable without it). No person in your life is more than a keystroke away, or a cell phone call. Yet you can go months without saying a thing because of "a lack of time" , truth is you have nothing to say, there's nothing to talk about in spite of the sheer mass of people and events taking place every day. See what I mean?

Hey have you called "tech support" lately? These are the most likely scenarios:

A) you get an Asian on the phone who, while he speaks impeccable English, can not even begin to comprehend what you are saying. He desperately struggles to clarify what you are complaining about (while making jokes about the superbly...) and after 30 minutes of suicide class agony cheerfully and politely explains that there is nothing that he can do for you as either

1) you caused the problem

2) the problem isn't covered

3) the problem was caused by someone else's software/hardware/service and you should call them (which starts the cycle all over again....uh red pill or blue?)

B) you are greeted by a telephone the telephone askes to you explain why you are calling, who you are and if you are authorized to call. "press 1 to continue in urdu...press 2 to continue in swahili...(15 minutes later...)...press 73 to continue in english..." afterwords there are more menu's "speak or say yes" or "press the letter Q on your phone", it goes on and on, your eye's begin to bleed, you start to cry and scream. then a tech gets on the phone (Finially!) and ...politely explains that there is nothing that he can do for you as either
1) you caused the problem
2) the problem isn't covered
3) the problem was caused by someone elses software/hardware/service and you should call them (which starts the cycle all over again....uh red pill ,blue pill or lead pill?)

C) it spite of the best efforts of the system to drive you to dispar and suicide you manage to survive it all (I have heard credible stories of this happening) and prove that the problem is real and thier responsability and: they tell you that they know about it and are working on it and would be happy to contact you when a fix is released, at which point you phone cuts off as you are on voip and the latest snotwads hit "fuck me whit you skull" prerelease that you 13 y/o daughter downloaded from limewire releases its viral payload and eats your computer (which hosts the voip app) and causes your ISP to blacklist your connection, for security reasons. which causes you to have to go to a neighbors house to ......

call tech support.

am I the only one that is getting the impression that this whole technology thing isn't working out they way we thought it would? please try to remember that the very first thing that the modern world wroght is the atom bomb and the cold war. are you getting it yet?