Technology And Negligence In New Orleans

Technology makes system integrated and well operated. Technology is primary productive forces. If there were no development of technology, there would be no today’s highly development of human materialistic and mental civilization. In other word, technology should guarantee people’s living in a better condition. However, human negligence causes letting technology not be suitable to respond possible disasters. For example, On August 29 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused over 50 failure of the levees and flood walls which were protecting New Orleans. The failures of the levee and flood wall makes 80% of New Orleans full of flood. Over a million homes and businesses were flooded by tens of billions of gallons of water in New Orleans. In this case, levees and flood walls are responsible to protect people living in New Orleans from hurricane and flood but they did not because of human negligence.

United States Amy Corps of Engineers are responsible for the design and construction of the levee System, and
President Bush said that the hurricane might destroy the levees in New Orleans, but the government of New Orleans did not take actions to inform people of how to conduct evacuation and security. White house established rescue headquarters after 36 hours, and decided to start working on the second day. On August 31, 1500 polices received orders to abort searching survivors and start to maintain orders. Technology can foresee the coming disaster, but it should cooperate with people who are responsible for taking actions. New Orleans government did not do their job to protect their people. Technology gave the governor the information of Hurricane Katrina and the damage it would make to the city and all the people. According to this case, we should learn that technology is not the only thing we should rely on, technology is a tool which human should cooperate with to minimum the damage it will