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new technology creates lots of fear people start screaming we're all gonna die we're all going to die these are the top five technologies that will not be the death of us all I mean there may be some casualties but not all of us at number five virtual reality this technology keeps coming back in one form or another people worried that virtual reality would lead to isolation which will lead to the downfall of society now that's not going to happen because people will get addicted to VR but it costs money to pay for electricity and an online connection society is safe for now at number four wireless technologies I don't want to take this too lightly so let's get serious for a second there's been concern that cell phones can cause cancer do their mission of radio waves tissues near an antenna can absorb this energy according to the US National Cancer Institute radiofrequency energy does not cause DNA damage they can lead to cancer we're going to be okay at number three robots in general we've all seen terminator in the matrix machines take over and we're relegated to a lower class we are nowhere near sentient robots that plan to kill us all take a look at the Cosmo that's not killing anyone how about that robot from Boston Dynamics Atlas one long pole and Atlas is done for hey Boston Dynamics make sure you don't program Atlas with a sense of revenge okay thanks at number two drones I'm not talking about military drones that is flying death I'm talking about the drones normal people can buy take a look at this video from guard from above that's a bird of prey taking out one of those quad copters the scaly feet of the bird protected from damage and at number one self-driving cars there is this great fear that self-driving cars will cause accidents which will lead to many deaths well according to some numbers from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety there were one point oh eight deaths per 100 million miles driven in the US for 2014 Tesla states that worldwide there's a death every sixty million miles the first fatality we're Tesla's autopilot was engaged just occurred after 130 million miles Elon Musk estimates that auto pilot could have saved about a half a million people per year at that rate these cars may save more of us than we expected for more top flies like this good luck because that was a really weird 14 other top fives check out top 5 cnet com I'm I as actor I'll see you online