The Gap Between the Future and the Past

After all of the what if questions, I began to think of one of my favorite books, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World is a novel focused mainly on a society with advanced and new technology. The novel illustrates the complexity that technology brings to a society and how at the end of the day all of the new technology is to much for some people to handle. I think this is a really great what if question for the future. What if our technology becomes to advanced for us to handle at some point?

The concept of our technology being to much for us to handle can, also, be connected to the economic side of technology. We continue to invent new pieces of technology without debate, because to our society technology is a good thing. It makes life easier and brings us information we would otherwise never know, yet we never stop to think that maybe we are not always ready for new technology. We have some of the most sophisticated and advanced technology in the entire world, yet some of our laws date back to the time of Constitution. Maybe it is time to start allowing the law to catch up with technology rather than continuing to create new technology that has to ability to manipulate the meaning of our laws and take advantage of our economy.

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