Archive 1997-2016
Your eyes snap open to the shrill beeping of your alarm clock. You crawl out of bed, shower, dress, and grab a piece of toast on your way out the door. You hope for a quick commute, but construction downtown has traffic backed up. You curse and wish you’d never had to leave the house.
No bookstores grace the small and remote towns of Nunavik, Quebec’s Arctic region. Books must be ordered by air mail. But suddenly last year, electronic information rushed in and pounced upon the communities of Kuujjuaq and Salluit, only to miss its mark.
Technology is ironic. From the invention of the wheel to flying airplanes, humans have relied on it to overcome obstacles.
But many argue that for every problem solved, a new dilemma emerges.
Cable television, home video and the Internet have allowed access to more information than was once fathomable.
Technology: Friend or foe? Naughty or nice? A help or a hindrance? The debate has been getting a lot of attention lately.
Most of it the Orwellian kind.
For all the technological pros that people will concede — the convenience of instabanking, or the benefits of computers in the classroom — the cons promptly follow.