Chapter 12 response

In the 12th chapter of Darksyde's eBook, he explores the downsides that come along with the benefits of technology. He focuses more on the downsides of technology, but I think he has a good reason for doing this. We all know about the benefits of technology. However, we often don't stop and question wether or not there is a down side to the good things that we get out of technology. Darksyde mentions the downsides of various technologies in the past and present, and speculates on future prolems technology might bring about.

A professor of mine once described technology as "a two-edged sword." It has the power to better lives, but it also has the power to destroy lives. I think that Darksyde makes the same point in this chapter, but doesn't emphasize how it betters lives, especially when he speaks about the Enlightenment. He gives a very biased version of the Enlightenment. At no point in the chapter does he mention that the Enlightenment was named because of intellectuals who emphasized the value of reason above all else. Rather, he focuses on warlords, and flippantly claims that the Enlightenment was "so named because armies equipped with the new weapondry fanned out. . .to 'enlighten' their adversaries about which deity's chosen Boss was now running the show." I think his one-sided claims make it clear that he should stick to science, and leave history to the professionals.