One of the things that has happened with technology is that it can only be helpful if it is useful, of course, but it can only be helpful too if it's accessible, and it can only be helpful if it's affordable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.