Pro or Anti Technology think :-)

A knife can kill, and the surgeon’s knife can save a life. Ultimately, it is not the technology or the weapon that takes lives, but the finger that pulls the trigger, the mind that conceives the crime; as someone stated earlier , ‘wars begin in the minds of men’. One area where this has long been manifest is technology. Whether the technology is good or bad, evil or a godsend, depends on context, perspective and use.
It may be well to remember this as the country — and the world — faces new challenges. For the first time in the history of the modern nation-state, it is seriously threatened not by another nation-state but by small organized groups. Thanks to technology, a band of highly motivated individuals can hold a powerful nation to ransom or cause mayhem on an unprecedented scale. The world saw this — literally, thanks to real-time TV coverage — on September 11, 2001, in the US and, in a different way, on November 26, 2008, in Mumbai. In the latter case, destruction entailed the use of standard weapons: guns and explosives. In the former instance, the weapon was a civilian aircraft.

Explosives have long been used to clear obstacles while building roads or for other construction-related purposes. As such, the technology itself can hardly be faulted for how it is used. The argument in the case of civil aircraft is even more obvious. Around the world, means of transport — trucks, cars, motorcycles and, in India, even bicycles — have been used as carriers of explosives, to create chaos and cause destruction.

No one has yet suggested a ban on airplanes, motorcycles, cars or bicycles, but, in a shoot-the-messenger reaction, mobile phones were long banned in parts of the country. There is also a general ban on the use of satellite phones across the country. Of course, it is well known that mobile phones are sometimes used to trigger an explosion, and that people — including terrorists — talk to each other by satellite phones.

Do we, then, consider mobile telephony a dangerous dual-use technology and impose curbs on its use? The Commonwealth Games in Delhi are likely to face security threats — should all mobile phone connections be cut off in the city during those two weeks?

In the telecom sphere itself, there is now much controversy regarding email services like Blackberry and about telecom equipment itself. There are proposals to impose conditions regarding imported equipment and software that are so onerous that few manufacturers will agree to them — unless they intend to flout them through some clever subterfuge.

The aim, apparently, was to keep out Chinese equipment — without an explicit ban — for reasons of security (possibly instigated by rival equipment suppliers from other countries who are now, doubtless, ruing being hoist with their own petard!). Ironically, the only ones who may willingly agree to all the conditions are the Chinese vendors.

Meanwhile, there are technologies that track eye movement and other body parameters; with these inputs and appropriate software, psychologists are able to detect nervousness. It is proposed to use this to identify potential terrorists by putting cameras and sensors at the back of every aircraft seat to monitor each passenger. Even the body heat & hart rate sensors tell many thing about emotional state of a human being. But then privacy have another level for restrictions thought to go on & on , Do share your feelings suggestions on this to me.