It's been mentioned before but depending on technocracy for solutions to serious problems brings along its own sets of problems. There's many examples that never see the light of day but the latest one, the impersonation of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the phone, is going to need some repair. Her nemesis could have ordered a pizza with anchovies from some unsanitary ghetto parlor delivered to innocent congressional interns. Then what?
As people lean more and more on equipment and processes beyond their "complexity horizon" the chances for real disaster increase dramatically. Just ask the Hamas communications experts on how well their pager program worked out. No doubt publicity has brought the auto-pen guys some badly needed overtime to meet the new demand. The latest rocket explosion is another "what went wrong?" moment. At some time in the very near future an unnecessary self-colliding car will squash a group of school children.
It's obvious that the never-ending evolution of mysterious and dangerous technology and behavior needs to be re-evaluated to see if the risks involved are really necessary.
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