Stability. Hence this" (pg. 31) says the controller as he refers to the technological advancements and all that was done to condition their citizens. He continues, " and you can't make tragedies without social instability."(169) His statement is rather Machiavellian in that he sees stability as the ultimate end important enough to give reason to citizens' conditioning and their loss of individuality and self-dependency. It can also be seen in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, when a person is taught through technology to perform appropriately according to that society's beliefs. In such case he becomes a technologically dependent human relying on the science of his conditioning to tell him of his wrongs and his happiness. This may seem like an extreme example of our loss of dependency to our technological systems but we have become so that our logic and reasoning have been skewed to work with computers. An example can be seen in the fact that this nation alone spent billions preparing for disaster that might arise from something as simple as how computers store dates. How is that for dependency? Technological dependency may be a great aspect for the future had it not come along with disadvantages? What is the longest step mankind is willing to take to achieve stability and worldwide happiness?.

             As technological transformations continue within an environment of increasing complexity and rapid advancement as can be seen today, there are concerns regarding disadvantages of our "wonderful" technological age: Reduction of the right to privacy, increases in techno-crimes, systems incompatibility, unnecessary complexity, planned old age of hardware, and increased interrelatedness between the user and the technology (and hence reliance). Privacy is a thing we treasure highly but as computers continue to grow our privacy is threatened and soon enough it could become rare. System incompatibility, complexion and planned old age refer to computer's complexities that limit us from complete interaction between systems and each other.