06 December 2006
Technology isn't all-knowing
This is not something I would normally write about, but it is a perfect example of why we need to not completely rely on technology but rather use it as a tool.
In England an ambulance transporting a patient from a London hospital to another hospital on the outskirts of London travelled all the way to Manchester before they realized their GPS had led them off course.
Computers and computerized gadgets are wonderful tools that make things faster and easier, but when people begin to rely on them completely and not think for themselves, such events like this can happen.
Recently I was talking with some people who didn't like GPS because it made them forget how to get anywhere without it. People begin to become too dependant on GPS to travel. They will for example sit in traffic jams that they normally would have known would be there and would have driven a different way only because the GPS told them to drive that specific way.
Electronic gadgets can help make decisions and speed up the process, but they do not always provide the best decision for us, they don't have the experience of life to help make those decisions as people do.
In England an ambulance transporting a patient from a London hospital to another hospital on the outskirts of London travelled all the way to Manchester before they realized their GPS had led them off course.
Computers and computerized gadgets are wonderful tools that make things faster and easier, but when people begin to rely on them completely and not think for themselves, such events like this can happen.
Recently I was talking with some people who didn't like GPS because it made them forget how to get anywhere without it. People begin to become too dependant on GPS to travel. They will for example sit in traffic jams that they normally would have known would be there and would have driven a different way only because the GPS told them to drive that specific way.
Electronic gadgets can help make decisions and speed up the process, but they do not always provide the best decision for us, they don't have the experience of life to help make those decisions as people do.
