Technological Profusion Degrades Responsibility

I came across an article in the New York Times (Your Phone Is Locked. Just Drive. By David Pogue) that elucidates the up-and-coming applications that are being developed to prevent cell phones from being used by drivers. This involves the Global Positioning System in the phone being used to detect the speed that the individual is traveling at, and locking out the phone at five or ten mph.

The development of such technology is absolutely disgusting, and I have no qualms about making this claim. Has our self-discipline become so degraded that we need satellite technology to enforce responsibility?

Apparently so! Just about every single comment left on this article either praised the technology or simply critiqued it. This is outrageous! How have we become so accepting of technological intervention? How have we so abandoned our faculties of consideration, frugality, discipline, and common sense?

Our intellectual progress is clearly corrupted. We have become self-defeating. We have disregarded establishing any sense of personal responsibility.

The old stalks are crumbling and our blossoms have long past gone to seed. The skin, bones, and spirits of our ancestors, and of those to come, entreat us to germinate anew to re-establish the vitality of humanity.