A few times a week, I go to the gym to let off some steam, and I watch the TV monitors on the wall while I'm running to help pass the time. Sometimes, the news comes on, which makes it hard to run since I'm trying hard not to throw up while I'm watching the crap on the TV.
Anyway, a few weeks back, one of the news pieces was a bit on technology, and the theme of the piece was "Is technology moving too fast?"...which translates to something like "Don't you hate the idea of being so comfortable with the luxury of technology?" or "The Terminator: do you want him to show up for dinner at your house?". (You think that I'm kidding about the Terminator stuff, aren't you? Just wait.)
I already hate the piece since it's whole purpose is to push sensationalism...which means helping those people who love to doubt by providing them with more material that inspires fear and dread. But I'm stuck on a treadmill that points in only one direction...so I keep watching. The news piece starts adequately, asking a few scientists about their opinion on the subject. Of course, all of the scientists shown are against the speed of technology, because these kinds of news pieces would be ruined by the common sense of a scientist who recognizes and admires the good of his own profession.
Now, the interviews with the scientists aren't so bad, even though they're predicting the end of mankind with Nazi robots...but when it gets to the end, it just completely goes over the top. The reporter of the piece ends it by giving a few quotes (and his hypothesis about the upcoming apocalypse caused by our own PCs and washer-dryers), but he only comprises the audio portion of the conclusion. For the visual component of the piece's conclusion, several clips are shown from the movies The Terminator and The Matrix, where machines are collecting humans as batteries, or where they're blowing away people with machine-gun arms.
