Tech Thursday -Technology for Peace

Starting off this post on a less optimistic note, I'd like to call attention to the date. August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was leveled by a never before used technology. 3 days later, a 2nd atomic bomb would be dropped on the city of Nagasaki; the combined devastation resulting in Japan's surrender. The end of the war saved the lives of soldiers on both sides of the conflict, but at the steep price of the hundreds of thousands killed in two fiery blasts.

Today, ground zero in Hiroshima is home to a museum dedicated to world peace, a wall inside bearing the inscription, “Let all souls here rest in peace, for this mistake shall not be repeated.”

The world during the great wars was a very different place than the one we live in today . Distance then created a gap larger than culture, multiplying differences until common ground was often impossible to achieve. Our planet is now smaller, the lines of our cultures blurred and blended as technology allows us to communicate world over in the blink of an eye.

Today, social networkers enjoy an easy means to contact people in cities and even countries beyond their own. Current events are no longer edited and biased by the media before being headlined to the public. People still have differences, wars still rage. But today, the voice of reason is louder, the call for peace impossible to silence, ringing from mobile phones in every corner of the planet.