Radical Evolution Chap.5&6

In the Chaper 5, The Hell Scenario, Bill Joy predicts that technology will be such an evil in the future. Because I'm not for relying on technology, I pretty much agree with this scenario. I am afraid that technology will control our world someday and human will lose their power and human feelings. Bill makes the same kinds of comments as I mentioned in my past journal of this book. On page 162, he says "It is some how necessary to our self-understandings of what we are as human beings. I mean, you can't have courage without risk. You can't have real compassion or sympathy without the personal experience of pain". I totally agree with this comment. Yes, we can rely on technology at the certain extent, however, it should not destroy human nature. I am very afraid that the history of human beings will be ended by ourselves, because of this quickly development of technology. Also in this chapter, it says that the gap between developing and developed countries will occur as we develop technology. Or we can say that the gap is already happening. Since rich people tend to get first pick throughout all of history, people in developing countries are left behind in the field of technology. However, I think those people might be happy, in a way, that they are left behind. Why I think life this is because if the technology world will rule us in the future, people in developing countries can survive. This gap might be important and needed, I thought.

The Prevail Scenario(chapter6) is odd and unprecedented. Is is less well defined compared to the Heaven or Hell Scenario. The future predicts are not always correct, and this scenario is more likely to follow the thoughts. We can pick which direction to proceed, either heaven or hell (or curve?) in order to realize our desirable future. Now, we have to consider carefully what we really want in our future: technology? or human feelings?

This book really makes me think about our future.