Technology really does seem to have an amazing rate of change, doesn't it? In the studio we're regularly updating software and hardware, getting our heads around new 'can-do's' and 'can't-do-anymore's' as everything shifts yet again.

A recent conversation bought up a fascinating idea regarding how our love affair with all things 'technology' might actually result in changes in human behaviour.
My fellow conversationalist, a chap deeply involved in new media, stated that once uploaded/ posted/ texted, there's no way of knowing if the information is ever lost. Someone 'out there' might have grabbed the info, so it may continue to exist long after we've hit the 'delete' button. His point was that we'll start to adjust our behaviour accordingly, knowing that everything we do or say is perpetually in existence somewhere and might resurface when we least want it to. A society of individual responsibility, self regulation and honest, law-abiding citizens would ensue...

I found the idea interesting - not least of all because I'm a touch cynical (who, me? You'd never guess!), but cannot deny he might have a point.
I wondered... is there anything in history to support his theory? Whilst one could argue that we've never had current technology before, we've had plenty of astonishing inventions and discoveries. Have they changed our nature...or have they simply changed the way we live day by day? It's not so long ago that everyone - all of society - believed utterly in an omnipresent and omnipotent deity...but this did not result in an end to crime or wrong-doing. Will new technology bring about this deep-seated change in our all-too-human nature...or will we just assume that technology is as fallible as the humans who create it and we won't 'get caught'?

I love the belief and optimism that technology might solve anti-social behaviour problems and bring about a safer, better community, but it will have to deal with human nature above all things...and I'm just not sure it's up to the job!