This was the second part of a series looking at how technological innovations are changing humanity. The first part was devoted to how amazing things were being achieved. This part, which can be viewed or read as a transcript, shows the bad things that can happen. For example, many pacemakers are connected to the Internet and can therefore be manipulated by hackers.

I'd like to say there was this huge insightful reason but it was mainly because I found this part of the program to be more interesting to read. I looked for a way to post both programs together but, since I could only pick one, I went with the one talking about internet trolls going around trying to give people seizures and unplugging people's pacemakers through their computers. Anyway, there already seemed to be a few articles and resources posted here about the positives of medical technologies.

I thought this article would go well with the Kling reading from the last unit. Here's a company, Hewlett Packard, that is losing workers (about ten percent of them) yet is introducing a new social networking program for those who remain. Of course, this social network has more to do with managing work projects and tasks than just chatting with friends or posting status updates/

From mid-2009 so some of the Web innovations mentioned as gaining popularity are now extremely common mainstays on the scene. However, the article takes a good look at how current social media websites can be seen as a kind of "socialism without the state:" taking the communal tendencies of socialism but erasing government from the picture.