MOTORS
NAVIGATOR
FLIGHT OF THE
TECHNOLOGY IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED. ITS ABILITY TO MAKE US SMARTER, FASTER AND BETTER IS SOMETHING THAT HAS INSPIRED ME SINCE MY CHILDHOOD, FROM THE DAYS OF THE FIRST COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS, TO THE FIRST HOME COMPUTERS THAT WE ABUSED BY PLAYING GAMES ON INSTEAD OF PROGRAMMING (THOUGH I MANAGED TO DO BOTH AND WRITE MY OWN COMPUTER GAMES, THUS OUTWITTING MY STERN LUDDITE PARENTS!). HOWEVER THERE IS A DARK SIDE TO TECHNOLOGY, AND AN EVER-GROWING PERCEPTION THAT IT HAS IN FACT MADE LIFE MORE HECTIC AND LESS PLEASANT. AS OUR DEPENDENCY ON MICROCHIPS HAS GROWN, OUR RELIANCE ON OTHER HUMAN BEINGS HAS LESSENED, PERHAPS TO OUR DETRIMENT, AND IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE SUCH SCARY TALES AS CONTAINED IN THE TERMINATOR, WAR GAMES AND 2001, LEAVING THE MACHINES IN CHARGE CAN HAVE DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
WORDS
AND
PHOTOS
BY
LUKE
YATES
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