Computers good or not!! by kerminator Blog entry

While the computer has revolutionized and helped to improve many things in everyday life; voting is not one of them...

Yes computers put a man on the moon... They aid in managing large data bases... Computers make many machines perform more efficiently... The use of computers in control of many complicated operations, is almost a necessity... Computers allow many almost instant analysis of data and procedures, which save time... But in some areas they are not ready to take over the process...

The use of electronic voting is in question... Many people think that just because you goto a terminal and enter data; that it is always processed the way they want... Wrong!! First data has to go through many systems, and at most any of these the data can and may be altered... What? Computer scientists have pointed out to the US Congress; that electronic voting machines can"t be audited because there's is no record of the actual voter's intension's. There's not any way of checking the actual electronic count against the actual voter's intentions... HUH!

The society is becoming more and more worried about what people are doing... We now have more cameras in most of the larger stores, in larger cities, at certain traffic signals and even schools and work places... Why? Well many people want to know what someone is going to do... Which is rather a stupid way to look at something, because we could all sit down and come up with a list of such happenings... Many things are well understood and thus do not show any new ideas; just more of what we already know...

Example; small children will push and pull fighting over things(toys), young girls will spend time prepping and making them selves look good, young males will enter contest against other males to prove themselves, and so we could go on through the society...

These are just some of the ways to look at the use of computers and other electronics in the society... So does the use of electronics and computers answer or create more problems? The answer is not simple, and while in some cases they help or improve life, in others they cause false expectations or create more confusion and uncertainty...

BTW: All the camera, and recorders only display or shows after something has happened; never before it occurs!! It does not prevent any action from happening!

In many cases the real question is; since there must be watchers or over seers of this data maze, who is watching the watchers? Super watchers, police, politicians, or just some government worker?

"It is in the manipulation and presentation of the data collected; and how it is used, that in the end effects and controls the people..." a True-ism 2008

This is indeed a complicated and dangerous game we play with the lives of people; through the use of computers and electronics...
It all comes down to control and manipulation... This has been the central course of history since time began... Who will control whom!

God gave everyone freedom of choice and some men want to take control of others...