psyah
October 7, 2013, 6:53am
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Re: Humanity Needs and Technology
OK. The reason I stopped listening to her is not because I did not want to. It was that she herself kept getting off tract and kept talking irrelevant things, like women from her village, pardhan mantri and kitchen and food available right there.
I had a question for her right there, did she check her food before she ate if she ate at that place?
Now, coming to the videos. They show there are evil and money oriented people who are using ‘technology’ wrong way.
The corporates might be doing it without actual intention to harm people but none of the videos actually determined with proof that what these speakers were saying is actually true.
At least the first speaker verbally quoted some findings and studies but no proof.
He talked about Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) insecticide. But all it is a naturally occurring bacteria which is ubiquitous.
It gets insects off of our food and is readily killed by sunlight. And one can assume it will be destroyed by cooking or heat.
Bacillus thuringiensis
The speaker did not make a speech about harmful effects, rather he wanted people to know and have these food items be labeled. That’s all. He himself said it.
Regardless, the technology is the reason why we as mankind can even find what is wrong with technology used wrong way.
There was a reason for these pesticide (sounds horrible but all it is a naturally occurring bacteria) to develop. Crop was getting killed by insects and people started using it.
Please search bt insecticide.
Nested within what you have written is my point …
Not enough thought is given to real benefit to mankind
Measures are being taken circumvent the possible ills or correct information just so people can continue making money from their technology.
technology in the purist sense is neutral … It is not neutral in the real world … Because it is backed by profit making organisations and the wisdom is that there is very little overlap between what is truly beneficial and what is made available to the technology using masses.