On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:47:01 GMT, Lobby Dosser
wrote:

I think the reverse is true. Technological advancement gives a
society options, redundancies, flexibility and the ability to assess
and remediate problems.
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While increasing technologies may indeed provide options,
redundancies, etc, these are of use only if people know (1) they
are available, and (2) how to use them.

While increasing societal "complexity" is a separate issue, the
rapidil accelerating decline in trust and trustworthiness is not
and it is THE critical and most problematic in the so-called
symbolic manipulation [interesting word choice] areas such as
stocks, bonds, pensions, insurance, and currency trading.




Unka George
(George McDuffee)

....and at the end of the fight is a tombstone white
with the name of the late deceased, and
the epitaph drear:
“A Fool lies here, who tried to hustle the East.”

Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka, ch. 5, heading (1892).