Oxford University Press. The danger of technology lies in the transformation of the human being, by which human actions and aspirations are fundamentally distorted. Not that machines can run amok, or even that we might misunderstand ourselves through a faulty comparison with machines. Instead, technology enters the inmost recesses of human existence, transforming the way we know and think and will. Already, he points out, the computer has revolutionized fields as disparate as medicine, publishing and politics.
Computerized instruments enable doctors to remove the gallbladder with only tiny incisions.
Computer bulletin boards and fax machines facilitated the 1989 democratic uprising in China. Many of the computer's consequences are less obvious and potentially more insidious. With a mind-set fixed on information, our attention span shortens. We collect fragments. We become mentally poorer in overall meaning.