{"id":356,"date":"2007-07-18T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2007\/07\/18\/356\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:00:13","slug":"356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Technology For Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article<\/a> today on the BBC web site saying that a huge underground lake has been found under the Darfur section of Sudan, and it may bring an end to the terrible violence that has plagued that region for the past 5 years or so. The BBC thinks that if wells are drilled and everyone gets enough water for farming and such, the Arabs and native Africans can settle down and put their guns aside. Let\u2019s hope so.<\/p>\n

If this were to happen, it would be one of the first times I know of that a war was ended peaceably by technology. Warfare has become more and more deadly over the past two or three centuries because of technology. But in Sudan, radar and satellite photography and computer analysis were used to find water where no one thought it could be (versus sending bombs and missiles to their targets with pinpoint accuracy). <\/p>\n

Technology sometimes appears to be sending us on a one-way ride to doomsday. It\u2019s nice to see that it might at times help humans to reclaim their humanity.<\/p>\n

PS — of course, the New York Times is a bit pessimistic<\/a> about whether the big water find is really going to stop the oppression and make things better in Sudan. I hate to say it, but they could yet be right. Perhaps it is still too early to break out the optimism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article today on the BBC web site saying that a huge underground lake has been found under the Darfur section of Sudan, and it may bring an end to the terrible violence that has plagued that region for the past 5 years or so. The BBC thinks that if wells are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}