Should people know more about technology?

[boonlar]

Here are some quotes from Carl Sagan.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

What do you think? Are people being left in the dark? Few people actually know how their own computers work

"It just works" Is that a dangerous motto?

 

[Henri Gaudier]

It's too much to ask really. Once upon a time, your world was a philosophical conundrum based on the abstracts of existence. Now it is that and more due to international news, intellectual and scientific development, cultural exchange, literature, advertising etc. Some can repair a BSA Bantam blindfolded, others are a whizz with Photoshop or a soldering iron. It's an overload as it is without an extra burden. Of course some will navigate to it as some to proctology! Who understands the combustion engine? It's over a hundred years old at least .... very few. Each to their own.