(January 8, 2017 at 2:15 am)Opoponax Wrote: Wasn't technology supposed to provide us with a more leisurely life?
Wasn't it supposed to allow us to pursue more personal goals? Of course we'd still need to be productive, but working for as many hours as is humanly tolerable just to make ends meet was supposed to be a thing of the past.
Or am I thinking of Star Trek? I'm so confused.
I think it might be the case , especially in developed countries, that people have higher standards of living now.
Making ends meet now involves paying for television, internet, computers, fashionable clothes, phone bills, microwaves.
Maybe you can detract television from that now the internet has taken over.
I don't know if I'm happier than my grandparents were but I'm definitely glad I can do things easier. Whether that's better in the long run might be debatable.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.