Okay, I am in. So ...um ...er ...like ...where to begin? What to say? How to make this space more than just the same old blah, blah, blah. The last time I was in a classroom the "internet" was just a glimmer in Vice-President Al Gore's eye (hah). Now, thirty years later (yes, time does, in fact, fly) it appears as though technology is poised to take over the world. "That's total nonsense", I hear you say, "it's not possible for computers to control the course of human events". Yet, I distinctly remember seeing Stanley Kubrick's science fiction classic "2001 A Space Oddity" when it debuted in 1968. I was thinking: WOW! If humans can land a man on the moon then why can't they also invent a computer like H.A.L. that could take over the world? Considering how far technology has come and how fast it continues to advance (happily short of Mr Kubrick's best guess) certainly anything is possible, right? Has science fiction actually become science fact? The caveman (think Geico commercial), was powerless to change the world he lived in. Not suprising, really, considering he had ZERO technology. Now 21st century man seems to have created a world in which his his own technology has seemingly become the "straw that stirs the drink". Are we really subject to newly created forces beyond our control? Let's find out.
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