Modern technology has come so far. In my small city in Canada, there is a test site for driverless cars.
But I wonder if there are grander uses all our brilliance could be put to. Could guns, including pistols, machine guns and rocket launchers, be jammed remotely, let’s say, by the United Nations? Grenades and bombs defused by satellites? Landmines blown up in the same way?
Could every weapon produced be outfitted with an indestructible sensor that would make all this possible? A mass murderer foiled after his first shot when monitors jam his weapon, perhaps.
Urinals that flush automatically when the users move away from them are great, but devices that could stop human carnage might be a more worthy goal.
I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.
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