If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
Initially, when I was younger, I thought that guns were the worst thing that ever happened to human kind. Think of it, Guns has killed many people, probably much more than any other weapon of mass destruction. When I was growing up, small guns, which we used to call pistols were used as the main tool for committing robbery with violence. Organized gangs used guns to intimidate people and they could enter your house and do whatever they wanted, they could take your money, take your household goods, rape your wife and daughters while they have assigned somebody to hold the gun on your head as they accomplished their animosity as you freeze with fear in one corner of your house. It did not end there, they could enter passengers car, and amidst the journey, two or more people could remove guns at random, and then order everybody to lie down and remove everything they have in their pocket, their money, cell phones and any kind of variables, then they could order the driver to direct the vehicle into the forest where they ordered everybody to get out, undress and place all their clothes in a hip, they could then take time to go through all the clothes looking for any variable left there, they could leave over 10 passengers in cold forest as they escaped with your car.
Travelling became a nightmare, especially long distance travels.The car crimes targeted long distance travelers because they were usually traders going for goods in the city so that they can sell in their local towns. If you happens to travel at night or at lonely forested paths where traffic was not busy, your car could be shot on the tires and it become flat wheeled. Sometimes they could shoot at the dashboard or the drivers hands and then they could beat you and rob you your possessions. It was rare for people with cars to be left unharmed. many were killed and others were permanently left with injuries.
However, these crime subsided when people stopped carrying money in their pockets, but instead, used electronic forms to do business transactions. Companies that could carry your merchandise from the seller to your premises emerged, they were armed with police and guns so that they could transport variable goods to long distances. Emergence of transport services and electronic money transfer killed the robbery business whose mission was to intercept wealth on transit.
But when i came to the city, i realized that dangerous gangs did not not need guns to cause serious harms to people. Knives were used to injure and rob people. In slums they could use all kind of crude weapons to beat people, from sharp metal to piece your ribs, blunt piece of wood to strangle you or heavy metal to beat you into unconsciousness and even drugs to numb you or make you have zombie stature. Girls were ordered to undress or they be pierced with knife, or were drugged and raped. Therefore i realized that people did not need guns to cause harm, steal or rape. I also realized that guns were useful to police, otherwise they were helpless in front of dangerous criminal gangs that has learnt the ways of the street. criminal gangs with their crude weapons and wicked heart could do much more harm that the guns and it took gun shots to tame them. Therefore i concluded that, we needed guns to be secure as much as guns were source of insecurity.
One day i witnessed police used their AK 47 guns to deal with a cobra that had become a night mare to an estate, it had entered somebody’s house and no one could dare fight it because it’s poisonous saliva was more lethal than most of crude weapons people had. Also in village, police were called to deal with angry Buffalo that was sweeping people without regarding their crude weapons direct to it, were it not for police guns to tame this animals, they could have done unimaginable destruction before a solution was found. Therefore, i stopped hating guns. I think it’s inventor should be given a Nobel prize.
You see, in most of technologies, it is not the invention that is bad or harmful, it is people that are evil. According the book of genesis chapter 6 of the holy bible, people’s imaginations are always evil and dirty continuously. The inclination of human being is to do evil, and so they will find a way of using whatever is in their hands to do evil. One think i could change given abilities is the spirit of a man. Because it is the one that gives births to all evil, no grenade propel itself, not nuclear elements organized themselves to make powerful bom. It is the people that spends sleepless night trying to find ways of destroying others, mostly to benefit from other people’s possession. For example Ukrainians were leaving in peace until Russian’s president felt that their land could be us well be under his territory. Ironically, we don’t need all those things we kill for, and after few days of possessing what was making us excited, we are no longer as happy as we thought we will be after getting what we so enthusiastically fought for.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
I think the greatest scam of the world is the artificial intelligence. We strive to develop machine that can learn human behavior and use million of dollars to develop their chips yet we cannot facilitate education of millions of intelligent children that cannot get education because of poverty. Well, we argue that machines are more consistent and don’t get tired, don’t get upset or don’t need rest. So with artificial intelligence, we can produce more with less costs.
But we produce for people. We want to produce more goods and services because their are people who will consume them. Machines will not need what we are producing. When we have driven people out of jobs because of innovating new efficient ways of doing things, it means we have killed their purchasing power. So will the robots that delivers our products in our doorsteps enjoy services in our hotels?, buy our high performance phone to take selfies and flock in our hotels for holidays?. Will intelligent machines need our cars and our fashionable clothing. Will they buy tickets to enjoy football in our stadiums. Eventually we may drive everybody out of work and we be left to work with only machine and transact business with them. People will be left to die beacuse of wants, and what will the manufactures do with the billions of products they will be making monthly?
Fast moving trains
Yes, we have trains that can move at a speed of 120m/s. My simple question is, why do we need to go that fast?
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