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Technology...

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What a question! I think I could write a book on how I feel about technology. It allows us to destroy, desensitize, and stupefy the masses, but also makes conversations like this possible. It allowed for incredible scientific discoveries and makes manual labor almost obsolete. It is the bane of human existence and a great asset for education, recreation, and social cohesion. I think that, overall, we treat technology with an extreme degree of disrespect, however many people have used technology to better humanity and our future. So I suppose to make a long answer short, it is great and terrible. Thanks for the question.
 
zep4dasoul said:
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Dude. Lighten up. I was making a joke. :)


Look, IMHO, asking "what do you think about where technology has taken us? " is incredibly vague and misleading.

Technology takes us to whatever the person using it is taking us too. The same technology that can destroy can also help, depending on who is using it and what motive they are using it for.

Personally, I don't blame technology for anything bad or good. I think considering us humans and how we try to make things easier, or how to communicate better or to figure out the way things work, technology is inevitable.
 
JFrankA said:
Dude. Lighten up. I was making a joke. :)
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As was I ;)
Judging by your number of posts compared to mine, it would be safe to say that I am a mere peasant groveling at your feet to most members of this forum. My joke was not an insult directed at you as much as it was directed at...

nevermind lol

I agree that technology is more or less irrelevant in regards to where we are at. It is natural to humanity and is simply a tool that has evolved with us
 
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Well, the stone hammer was great, but how can we ignore the WHEEL! Now that was a major technological jump! :D
 
zep4dasoul said:
As was I ;)
Judging by your number of posts compared to mine, it would be safe to say that I am a mere peasant groveling at your feet to most members of this forum. My joke was not an insult directed at you as much as it was directed at...

nevermind lol

I agree that technology is more or less irrelevant in regards to where we are at. It is natural to humanity and is simply a tool that has evolved with us
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Oops. Sorry. :)

Don't let the number of posts fool you. I'm just someone who just doesn't have much to do other than post on this forum.

Please please please don't grovel. Instead, let me buy you a beer to apologize for my misunderstanding and to welcome you to the forum.
 
JFrankA said:
Oops. Sorry. :)

Don't let the number of posts fool you. I'm just someone who just doesn't have much to do other than post on this forum.

Please please please don't grovel. Instead, let me buy you a beer to apologize for my misunderstanding and to welcome you to the forum.
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Unneeded but accepted. Beer is good, and thank you for the welcome. :D
 
I am still waiting on my personalized sex robot... the technology is there. They have some very cute robots in Japan. When man creates sex robots the end of the world must be nigh, but still so tempting. LMAO! :D
 
Heidegger mode engage:

It has reduced us to what we have reduced the world - i.e., it/we have ordered and arranged the world/us into standing reserve. That's why we have departments of human resources and why we talk about human capital. It is why we have the same essential language for tar-sands development as we do for office management. It is its own justification and its own self-fulfillment and we never question it. All problems are technological; all solutions are technological. It is a kind of destining. It is the essence of Being in the Age of the Technological World Picture. We are technology. technology is us. Everything is system.

Heidegger mode disengage.
 
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