The Accidental Reality

The BBC published an article on their website about a scientist who did some research linking phone usage to low sperm count. It may not be a huge, cataclysmic disaster like 9/11, but it does spark some thought about Virillio's general accident. The telephone (or cell phone) streamlines communication, and one fault in an intertwined web of communication networks will cause a general accident. Its interesting how the scientist in this report says the phone causes lower sperm count (provided that the man using the phone talks on it for more than four hours per day). Perhaps Virillio's general accident will result in the decline in population growth as people become infertile because of technology. However, critics in the article do point out that the idea could be far fetched and more research needs to be done.