Two links just to prove that technology isn’t good or bad…
..it’s just how it happens to get applied.
1: Steve Jobs calls father of child killed for his iPod. (New York Times.)
2: Tad Grglewiecz, civil engineer from Cricklewood, was one of the passengers on the No.30 bus whose roof was ripped off by the fourth of the July 7th explosion. “Doctors told him his hearing was saved by his iPod earphones.” (The Independent.)
Note that the object here doesn’t have to be an iPod. It could have been (would have been, in days gone by) a cassette Walkman, or a CD Walkman. It’s like one person being killed for the locket around their neck, and another having a bullet deflected by one.
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July 11th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Or perhaps earrings, as they might deflect a bullet from someone’s ear, thus preventing hearing loss.
Then again, if a bullet’s heading for someone’s ear, the brain would be likely to be in the firing line too.
Sorry, I’m not usually this morbid over lunch.