Interesting question being asked on another forum. Many younger members can't envision life and commerce without computers and the internet. Yet life and commerce worked quite well until this technology came along.
Now a hacker can basically destroy us by stealing our funds from our bank, maxing out our credit cards and then ruining our credit with just a few keystrokes.
Could it be we were better off without them and didn't know it?
It has a lot of ambiguous or Good/Bad qualities.
example : An electric wheelchair offers freedom to many unfortunate truly needy people and allows them to enjoy a few things that they would otherwise miss.
On the other hand it condemns a lazy person that initially doesn't need the chair. I believe a neighbor would be walking today if she had never allowed herself to become dependant upon the wheel chair that was initially purchased for her mother.
There are also things technology can do with algorithms and simulations that would be almost impossible to match manually. We hear the horror stories, still there are also a lot of good things as well.
But I feel and respect the anti tech idea. Racing was more fun in the primitive sense. There was a time when car builders were only limited by their imagination. Indy, Talladega, Daytona etc could handle all the horsepower that could be offered.
But after 200 MPH become common, keeping the cars on the ground among other things forced more governing or controls. Media technology was a factor too, the beastly cars at Indy in the 50 and 60s would have been throttled much sooner if there had been more attention to the savage nature.
Now drivers are safer, but some of the glamour, mystic or intriguing edge has been lost.
