Is technology making us less human?

[Edwardo Piet]

I think humanness is emotion.  Wouldn't you agree?

I thought TD got banned.

He did but then he hacked into Kit's account

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I don't see social media as any different than any other new and growing technology, be it medicine or weapons.

Anything can be used for ill intent. 

It is still always up to humans as to how we use anything.

That makes Steven Wilson seem pretty anti-internet... but he makes himself more clear in a much more recent interview, 6:47 into this video:





"Listen, I'm not saying that the internet is a bad thing. For me the internet is a wonderful thing. Technology is only as good as the way people choose to use it. Now, the problem we have is we have wonderful technology, we have internet, we have cellphones, we have the TV and all of those things are incredible inventions and have the potential to be incredible portals of knowledge and information and... to bring people closer together. But in fact, the problem is the way human beings are; not the way the technology is. Most human beings use the internet for downloading music, pornography and talking bullshit. On Twitter and Facebook [for example]. So much information on the internet is just noise. It's just people talking crap to each other... and there's no real sense of insight, or... intellect, it seems to me, in a lot of that stuff. So the problem is not the technology: the problem is the way human beings relate to that technology. And it's always been that way. It's always been that way. I think human beings by nature are quite passive... we're quite passive. If we're given technology that enables us to be really lazy... we'll be really lazy. Unfortunately. And you have to, kind of, push yourself to find creative ways of using technology. So listen: I love the internet. For me, as a musician, it's a fantastic way to get my music out there. But at the same time you won't find me on Facebook - I don't have my own Facebook page, I don't have my own - I have a fan page... which is great, get information out . . . you won't find me on Facebook talking about what I had for breakfast or telling my fans "Hey! I'm doing my shopping in Sainsbury's!"... but a lot of people do do that. I don't wanna know that. I don't need to know that. You know, so, that's the downside, for me, of the internet." - Steven Wilson

Couldn't say it better myself. That sums it all up for me.