Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)
Little did we realize or even allow to be considered that we, us as family and the tech-industry, we literally put dangerous weapons in the hands of our youth who have yet lived long enough to mature emotionally, socially and to achieve enough understanding to know how to handle such responsibility.
It is tantamount to handing over a loaded weapon to a two year old except now that two year old can pick up this weapon and wield it indiscriminately and predatorily against anyone, anywhere and anytime.
Technology has opened Pandora's box and that box is a computer, cell phone and the IoT or internet of things.
If they wish, they can take your identity or your livelihood with just a smidgeon of code and the press of a button, link or command at the prompt.
No where in our history has the so young been provided such opportunity to do so much good and so much bad while sitting and clicking a screen. No where has the immature been provided such power for good and bad and all without any guidance or afore thought to the repercussions for the actions they take.
What scares me most is how easy it is to react emotionally, and all young adults are overwhelmed with emotions and the hormones of youth, to any slight, diss or even innocent comment misunderstood and the next thing you know your spending exorbitant amounts of money to fix the damage they did with just the composing of code, the upload and the trigger mechanism that starts the code. Hey, they don’t even have to have coding capability, social media and our inherent emotional vulnerabilities as young adults provides a venue to safely attack and damage the emotional psyche of their targets. How many have suffered grave harm because of such immature reactions?
This begs the question, what can and should we do as a society because restricting or denying access just doesn’t work. I remember how I was told how I could not do certain things but bet you this that at the first opportunity when parents are not there I did exactly what they didn’t want me to do, you betcha! So, how do we do what ever in needed to set such moral standards and controls that those whose talents are so high to use them for the good of their family, group and society?
We also are finding that the techno world is allowing us as individuals to remain separate and alone while allowing us contact in such a way that we can connect with the entire world while feeling safe, secure and powerful where ever we may reside be it in our room, alone, or at the coffee shop on wifi or just about anywhere and anyplace we want with no thought of others and having to deal with others in close proximity.
We are a social animal and to survive we require social connectivity where the group through similar beliefs and goals band together to serve, protect and propagate our group. So, the techno world is slowing eroding the perception and belief that we need that group cohesiveness, bonding and cooperation to survive yet it that really true or is it just another false feeling promoted by the very tech itself.
I quote, “There are some studies that suggest that the peak of human violence is at age two. We are most violent of all at that age. Families survive the terrible two’s because toddlers are not strong enough to kill with their bare hands and are not capable of using lethal weapons.” Until now, the most lethal weapon of modern times comes in the form of technology, the capability to learn how to use it and the capability to wield that weapon even in the hands of toddlers.
We are so enamored with technology today that as parents we provide those same toddlers with toys like toy cell phones and toy iPads but it isn’t all that long after that the real thing is provided and they are added to the parents accounts. What are we to do, what can we do to secure and protect ourselves from our own children? Is this really the threat because most of the articles I have read in recent years are about those iPredators who use such tech to do harm and they are mostly in there early to late teens up to mid twenties.
iPredators are real, they are mostly young and they have no real social and emotional filters to say, “This is right but this is wrong and I will make the correct moral and socially correct decisions!”
You gotta wonder don’t you, your child, teen and young adult is often sitting right there on their tech-device but do you really know that they are doing? Do you really understand that he or she could be the very news story your are hearing about that hacked and stole millions of dollars of data?
Scary isn’t it?
