As in, "It's not like you're curing cancer," a refrain I hear sometimes when I get a bit over-inflated on GPS/GNSS and the wonders they can do in many fields of human endeavor. The intent of that remark is to remind me that on the one hand, there is technology. On the other hand, there is life, and there is death. Despite the leaps and bounds and the many alterations to life and its circumstances that technological advances have created, life - and death - still have the upper hand. And they will for the forseeable future. What's that bumper-sticker saying? "Nature bats last."
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