The Wrong Technology

The "Age of Technology" is a misnomer in American history.  Pundits predicted that what would emerge in America over time was an "Age of Electricity."  Whether anyone want to believe it America all ready has created, utilized, and dispensed with her greatest accomplishments.  The greatest of the all has been her "Age of Technology," but this is not now.  It may be difficult to believe in an era of the iPhone, apps which can lock your doors, pay for your purchases, and monitor your homes, the iPhone in no way rivals America's true "Age of Technology."  Without such a device, a miniature personal computer with a state of the art camera and a mobile phone, America sent men to the moon.  The Japanese created cutting edge electronic components.  The Germans produced the most finely engineered and tooled products.  It all has been done before, and it has been done better.  The only thing that is different is that kind of quality takes money.  America has decided these products are not worth it.  Quality costs too much.  We would rather pay peasants a fraction of an American living wage to produce shit, instead of spending the time and resources investing in our own people.  We sold out the American people, and it was called Globalization.  I can think of no product today that comes close to the quality of most things produced in the past.  The best example would be voting machines.  When things required real raw materials, quality craftsmenship, and a skilled and literate work force, you could be assured that the product would work, and it would work well.  It would work for a long period of time.  With the shift from real materials, textiles, furniture, produce, and appliances to the iPhone, things got smaller, more fragile, and less dependable.  Even software was better in its inception.  Today products are diluted, undefined, poorly implemented trinkets of fodder.  They are over priced, they under perform, and they are no reliable.  Will you trust America's voting system on Nov. 3?  We don't even know what it is.  When ATM's first emerged Diebold manufactured a simple and robust machine which efficiently handled mobile banking needs.  Over the years ATM's only have gotten worse in design.  They are not as good as they were in the beginning.  With the iPhone vying for control of everything, we are seeing constant and continual failures of traditional processes which now are reliant upon poorly written computer code.  They are fads.  They are click bait.  They are pop culture, but the iPhone does not deserve a place in the the maintaining of America.  It has no place in the formal processes of governance, education, or justice.  The iPhone is an entertainment device, and this is for what is should be purposed.  America at this moment has no clue how our states will handle the November 3rd election.  Each states is different.  Each states has different processes.  Each state above all suffers from a different level of corruption and bias toward a particular political candidate.  I have just finished watching the HBO film "Recount."  It is telling.  I feel no comfort that our election process is secure.  I feel it at no other time has been less secure, less competent, and more prone to failure than now.  It is because of this "Age of Technology."  When we fail to invest in quality tools, quality products, and quality innovation which are designed for success over the long haul, we will reap the reward.  That reward is failure for America.  America has been lured into the internet, and have have become addicted.  The last place any type of election should exist is on the internet.  No part of the election process should be invested in the internet.  Elections are old school, and unlike what happened in Florida in 2000 all votes must be collected and counted.  The disparities, the irregularities, the loop holes, and suppression have to be recognized and addressed before November.  It nearly is impossible, because those running the system are not transparent.  Bush won Florida because of a token rich Secretary of State who chose to favor him.  Bush also won Florida because his influential family had enough power 
to intimidate the Supreme Court.  Influence from monetary wealth is what rules America.  Our process is pure, but its vulnerability to power is deadly.  The rich are in a position to administer American policies.  It clearly was seen in this film "Recount."  The processes of the American legal system were impressive, but they were controlled by money.  Each time a victory was had, another rung had to be climbed acknowledging yet another richer person or group.  The rich are the rulers not because of their wisdom, ethics, or spirit, because they only know how to win.  They do not know for what they are fighting.  Hell must be an appealing place.