LACK OF TRUST Among the various wrongs which exist in our nation today one disturbs me more than others. - the obvious lack of trust. It can affect our future political and social well-being in so many ways.
I suppose there has always been a bevy of fault-finders about in previous eras but today they seem to be more. We used to hear about people of opposing views; today we speak with them. We, talk to them about today's problems and both sides listen better, too. Now, in a time when communication has blossomed and bloomed with abandon - radio, TV, photographic imaging, plus the Internet and associated computer presence where ever we may go. We, literally, take our entire world of knowledge and information along with us to solve any and problems which the world round us might devise, in the form of disks and computerized presentations coming to halls where color, action , sounds and seeing can all used to gain and to hold legitimate territory. Less and less do we hear about loyalty to set company, the largest, the oldest, newest. The old-established firm can look ahead to discover what the future holds and to ascertain our degree of trust we have in the computerized model it would have us live by.
How can we continue to set our sights by trusting individuals, firms, companies, groups, associations, armies, or when the must trust the ultimately a computer somewhere.
Do we need a "Dr. Phil"" nation-wide investigation to help us realize we work for a "thing,"? Where must our loyalties be centered? "Mine is better than your" and worse yet -"Yours it better that mine - unfair!"
If you have vague feeling that you may not really belong to the present day world or business and industry check on your deep down gut-feelings about computers.
A.L.M October 11, 2005 [c331wds]
