Technology is a double-edged sword.
It can spark the furnace, that keeps you alive in the winter.
It can spark a wild fire, that consumes all its path.
But then again, Lightning can cause the same damage —
WITHOUT the assist of human innovation.
Technology is a double-edged sword.
It can lead to increased crop production, to feed the masses;
which in turn, can lead to increased masses,
that taxes that same crop production.
Technology is a double-edged sword.
Sometimes the simplest of inventions —
can change the world;
often in ways, never imagined by the inventors.
Such innovations have been call “Disruptive Technology” —
because their impact, is SO unexpected,
and yet SO useful — that they spin off other innovations,
and industries, and businesses, and even
entirely new ‘ways of life’ …