South-East Asia Tsunami

Instead of using the newer & supposedly better methods of communication, like email, if the US monitoring station had just used the telephone, many lives might have been saved. Because of their lack of newer technology, many of the South-East Asian countries were completely unprepared & they didn't even know that a Tsunami was coming their way. If they had had access to email or even the internet, they could have found out about the Tsunami and maybe even have escaped from the danger zone completely. But as a result of having older technology & therefore less access to information, the death & injury toll was enourmous.
This is why we need technology, to prevent injury, and death.