Evalutating Kurt Vonnegut

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.” I believe that Kurt Vonnegut's opinion that he expresses in this quote is exactley correct; technology has created many awful weopens of war as well as computers and televisions which make life far easier; causing people do less work . I think what Kurt Vonnegut hasn't experienced is the brilliant opportunitites that technology creates; such as connecting the world and allowing people to travel as a few examples. As Kurt Vonnegut is a Luddiet he has a biast view and will not look at all the positives to compare them with the negatives; as if he did he would see that technology has many down points but all together is vital to our life and has brought us forward to the 21st centurary. As Kurt Vonnegut expressed in Harason Bergeron if we let technology get out of control and use it for bad uses we could end up with a society similar to the one in the story. Today though the world in many places is tense due to technolgy being used for evil for example Israel where many guns are used for fighting as well as in the Middle East. Another example today is google a search engine which allows people to connect and learn about other cultures as well as to gather more information on a world level. So overall I think Kurt Vonnegut is correct but he has to also except that there are many positive effects to technology.