“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

It’s amazing how much technology has changed our lives. Almost everything we do, from politics to archaeology, is different in one way or another. What do you think? Is all this making our lives better or are we headed toward something very dangerous? Maybe Rick Cock was right when he said, “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

(Eugene Yiga is the editor of Varsity Blah and his latest book is available free, exclusively from www.varsityblah.com/about)