Originally posted by jonza
Modern medicine is just another technology which can be constructive or destructive. It is our technology in general which will ultimately be our undoing (or rather our misuse of it). I often speculate as to whether we would have a terrorist problem in the world today if it wasn't for the ease with which anybody nowadays can obtain extremely lethal weapons of destruction. Such people have always been around, but they have never before had the information or the tools to make any real impact.
Good point. And some people have added that technology is, in and of itself, an adaptation of an advanced society. But wouldn't medical technology -or technology in general simply continue to work only as long as the technology remains uninterrupted. If for some reason (natural disaster, terrorist/artificial disaster, or economic collapse) the technology ceases then a huge portion of our population becomes, essentially, vulture bait.

One or more of these three is inevitable. Which will come first? My guess would be economic collapse, but artificial disaster seems a lot more iminent in recent years.