Technology Going too Far?

A topic that I've found interesting and debated over is the fact if technology has gone too far. We always find progress to be good, and it usually is, but sometimes knowledge isn't always the best.

The classic example I could think of is nuclear fusion. It's an efficient way to make a massive amount of energy. The US has almost 100 nuclear reactors thst generate enough power for their surrounding areas for a long time. The downfall to this is of course the deadly waste generated as a byproduct of the process, but there are facilities designed to contain this waste deep below in the ground.

On the other side, the first thing we used the process for was in a weapon. Nukes are deadly weapons that decimate anything in its blast radius, and if you're not killed by the explosion, good chance the radiation will get you. Throughout time since, countries have built up stockpiles of nukes, waiting for a Nuclear War to start. If there ever is a world War 3, there is good chance nukes will be launched, and many citizens dead.

Another idea I had was robotics. Recently I watched Avengers Age of Ultron, and was fascinated by Ultron this Ai running on a supercomputer loads itself into one of Tony Stark’s robots and try to take over the world. Most would say, what an interesting fantasy, but the truth is, we're striving closer and closer to a situation like that. Ai industry and research has been rapidly expanding with companies like Google leading the way. We have programs that are able to interact with people.

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