According to Vonnegut, author of Welcome to the Monkey House, technology is newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming.
Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
I think that this statement is partly true. True, because I think that technology is bad when it is involved in the making of nuclear bombs and weapons. However, technology is very useful and entertaining; especially when doing homework, computers come in handy, and when you're on a long car drive, iPods definitely are useful.
However, I agree with Vonnegut that we should become, and not our technology.
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