If only real life mirrored web/tech life. My routine is to run two different virus scans on my computer once a week - usually on a weekend morning. All of the icons and prompts make it easy to follow the instructions in order to complete the scans. My laptop is probably the healthiest machine - either mechanical or human - in the house. I think I can count, on one hand, the number of problems that have been identified, flushed out, and ultimately corrected. My machine is really quite self-sufficient as it fixes itself using the two virus-seeking programs.
Don't you wish that, in real life, human-attacking viruses could be as readily recognized by a scanning device as the ones discovered by computer programs developed specially for that very purpose? Oh, sure, if your doctor suspects a physical ailment within your body, then a special scan(s) is ordered, taken, then read, with the results often handled by several physicians, all receiving a large chunk of either your change or insurance change. But, if one's heart is broken, ego bruised, personhood offended or reputation maligned, then there is no scanning device available to detect, determine, derail and defuse the attacking virus, which is usually another human being. The problem is that often the attacking virus comes from within each of us, causing us to doubt our own decisions, thoughts, feelings, choices, etc.
Having an outside source (human) as the virus should be easier to erase, avoid, or remove, but sometimes the source is not so easily identified, which is where a scanning device would be so very useful. Perhaps the next generation of smart phones can have your contact list linked with a scanning app that is loaded into your phone. The phone can then be passed over your body, identifying physical problems or human problems related to someone on your contact list. The offending human could simply be deleted from the contact list and, voila!, the problem no longer exists for you.
Delete would take on a whole new meaning. All of you programming geniuses out there......could you work on this app, please?
You know, there is a children's book devoted to the solution to this very dilemma. Little Bunny Foo-Foo. In the book, the offending characters are threatened by the good fairy and her wand to turn them "into a big, big, goon!"
Sounds good to me.
Ancora imparo
