Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.
Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.
The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.