Do you think we're getting to dependent on technology?

[athoughtfulman]

This happens to everyone, and it has nothing to do with air conditioning (I'd like to see a paper that links to two if you have it though). When we go into an environment that is too cold for us, and we don't protect against the cold properly, our body defenses start to fail, which means the cold virus can easily infect us.

Well, its more of a personal opinion, just something that I think might be happening. But I am in no way sure. Though I think our dependence upon technology will show itself in time to be a weakness. In Europe (so I've heard anyway) they do something called a hot/cold treatment. I think it's something where they sit in a sauna then go under a cold shower and back and forth a number of times. This practice trains their body to adapt quicker to changes in temp. But when our bodies are too used to a consistent temperature, they lose their ability to adapt as quickly.

Builders have to lift power tools, and in most cases also have to carry bricks, beams, etc as part of their job. It's far cheaper to hire men than getting a robot to do it. The demand for builders is still there, and the requirement for builders is to be strong, so they have to workout.

Of course, the demand for builders is still there. I was merely pointing out the fact that less manual labour is required. A builder can now use all sorts of powertools to make his job easier. However, like you said, this does not cancel out the fact that they still spend large amounts of their time carrying bricks, wood, concrete, etc.

Perhaps it's more of a case of if technology were suddenly completely removed and we had to survive without anything electrical, any computer, any heater, stove, fridge, etc, how many of us would survive? But maybe it's a pointless question, seeing as technology will never "suddenly disappear". Hundreds of years ago we knew how to live off the land, without computers, mobile phones, genetically modified crops, etc, but now we have become dependent on the machines to do it for us. But again, there are still people who know exactly how to live off the land. I feel like it's something unique to the western world where we tend to take technology for granted.