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“As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use tech-nology to make really big differences in how people live and work.”—Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.The past few decades have seen some amazing advances in technology. Many of these changes have had a direct and measureable impact on the way people live, work, and play. Communication tools, such as cell phones, satellites, and the Internet, allow people to keep in constant contact across longer distances and from the most remote places. In fields related to medicine, existing technologies—digital imaging devices, robotics and lasers, for example—are being used to redefine surgical procedures and diagnostic techniques. As technology has become more complex, how-ever, so have the related ethical, legal, and safety issues.
Psychologist B.F. Skinner once noted that “the real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” Recent advances in technology have, in many cases, drastically changed the way people view the world around them. They can have a conversation with someone across the globe at lightning speed, access a huge universe of informa-tion with the click of a key, or become an avatar in a vir-tual world of their own making.