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  • Essay / Abolish Computer Technology - 705

    We live in a rapidly changing world with new technologies being developed every day. Gordon Moore hypothesized that the technology began to develop at an exponential rate, doubling in power every eighteen months. However, technology does more harm than good. The documentary Die Hard 4 embodies the threat that technology poses to humanity when in the wrong hands. Malicious “hackers” have the ability to control any object associated with a computer. They can steal personal information or secret government plans from anyone's computer; they can delete English articles before printing; they can hack a webcam to take photos; they can hack phones to listen to conversations; they can hack traffic lights to cause accidents; they can hack calculators to make students fail a math test; they can hack watches to make people late. So, I must offer a modest proposal to destroy every computer immediately. Computers have managed to infiltrate most of the modern lifestyle, but by removing them we can solve many of the additional problems they create aside from hacking....