Hey
all. I got to thinking after I posted
about names of relatives. Maybe some of
you are thinking, how does Joey have a
brother named Joey? Well, my parents
divorced when I was 12. My dad hooked up
with the chick he cheated on my mom with.
That didn’t work out, so he got with his High School sweetheart. He cheated on her with his now wife of, IDK,
2 decades, I think. Their first son is
Joey.
Weird? Yeah, I thought so, too. Why would you name your first son with
somebody else what you already named your daughter?
Anyway,
this post is about my older brother, Tony.
He’s awesome! I could go on and
on, talking about Tony. He taught me how
to play D&D 30 years ago. He taught
me so much. He is literally a genius. He could talk your ear off, but it’s all
stuff that you’d want to hear about, so…
One
day, I said something to him about technology getting out of control-like maybe
technology is a bad thing. His reply
went something like this:
Technology
itself is neither good nor bad. It is
just a thing. It is how we use it that
determine its helpfulness or destruction to ourselves or the world.
Wow. Think about that for a sec.
…
What
doctors can do now that they could not do 30 years ago. New medicine.
Electric wheelchairs. Prosthetic
limb advancements. The list goes on and
on. I mean, this is wild!
But then,
on the flip side, bombs are bigger. Internet
fraud. The Flu gets worse every
year. More and more kids bringing guns
to school. What is wrong with technology? You ask? I certainly did, but hearing what Tony had to
say on the matter, I now ask, “What is wrong with people?”
My
view is that about 97% of the world is born good. However, somewhere along the lines, some of
those stray, chasing money, power, whatever, and using technology as they see
fit until it becomes warped and unrecognizable.
Really, I don’t know what to say.
This is the part where I try to appeal to people, yes, so let’s be knowledgeable
and responsible with our ever-growing tool.
Of course, there is always room for fun and games, but I hope we can all
get to a point where we feel like the technology of each new generation is a
triumph over the last.
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