ESSAY
"Fever Detectors"

Categories

Kia Javanmardian

April 29, 2003

Science

Technology

Military

SARS

Security

Complex systems

Technological fix

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"A recent headline in The New York Times reported that military hardware is being used to detect SARS.  The technology is quite ingenious....
...It won’t be able to adapt and observe environmental changes as well as an adept person.  We, as a society, should move away from replacing human being with technology."

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