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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 7:39 am
I think that tech can’t be called anything other than a net good. If it killed us tomorrow we’d still be tens if thousands of years in it’s debt.
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 7:59 am
I ain't going back to crapping outside in the middle of winter.
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 8:39 am
Of course not. That's what chamber pots are for.
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 8:39 am
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 8:12 pm
(June 23, 2019 at 1:19 am)ColdComfort Wrote: (June 23, 2019 at 12:57 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: You are posting this question using a device based on technological development, on a board which only exists based on technological development..
Just exactly how thick are you?
Yeah. I'm using technology to raise a hypothetical question about the net benefits of technology. What's your point again angry internet user? Did you just reply to me on the internet, or by homing pigeon?
You have demonstrated the answer to your question simply by replying.
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 8:43 pm
Have you or anyone you know had smallpox recently?
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 23, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Not even close as far as I'm concerned.
Technology gives us the power to direct our own evolution. Unlike every other animal on this planet, we have the power to improve ourselves through technology. We can increase our own intelligence and physical powers. Theoretically, we can become god-like.
Other animals cannot do that. They are at the mercy of the food chain.
Easy answer for me.
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 24, 2019 at 3:17 pm
I approve of technology for the following reasons (not an exhaustive list):
1. I like living indoors.
2. 'Blackadder'
3. A pronounced lack of cholera cases in my neighbourhood.
4. Books keep getting cheaper.
5. I'm too old to run down an antelope.
6. Central heating.
7. The internet allows me to appear smarter than I actually am.
8. Better ways to get around than shank's mares.
9. Light bulbs.
10. I don't have to go to Thailand to get Thai food.
Can't imagine giving up the benefits of technology.
Boru
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 24, 2019 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2019 at 5:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If we define technology as tool making, then there seems to be increasing consensus amongst anthropologists that technology didn't start with homo sapien, home erectus, or even the Australopithecus. In fact the first tool fabrication probably occurred well before our last common ancestor with the chimpanzee, because chimpanzee spontaneously fabricate tools, and has been shown to be able to learn to make stone tools.
So truly giving up technology means we must regress to a point where we must call the chimpanzees "too advanced".
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 24, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Again guys, technology is as only as good as the ethics of the people that invent it and use it. Technology also was used by Hitler and Stalin to do what they did. And even today, fossil fuel CEOs lie about the damage their products do. Nadar took on the auto industry in the 70s to face them with their bad products.
I am glad I don't have to shit in an outhouse. I am glad I didn't have to sail on boat for months to get to Australia. But even our modern technology has a downside. That same technology has allowed humans to produce throw away crap that ends up in landfills and in our oceans. It allows our species to produce pollution faster than the planet can naturally absorb it.
Our species is very capable of inventing and problem solving. But at the same time, we are also full of greed and lust for power. It is still up to humans how technology is used. That is why I say technology is neither good or bad, but humans are good and bad and both good and bad people use the same technology.
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