Better or worse?

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  • cjfclarence

    In modern days, we have the power to create many new technologies; I phone, 3D TV, interactive technology, etc.
    Does continuously updating science and technology make our lives easier or harder?
    In the past, people invented new technology to improve their lives. But now are we still inventing or just 'remaking' things?
    Also, as we gain new technologies, what happens to the dead ones? What impact does this have on Global warming?

  • bjladams0

    i lost my hearing earlier this year. although i we are learning sign language, technology has made it possible for me to still communicate with my children easily - via dictation software and such... i like that.

    • looks like i need to learn to write again too..."i we"? scratch that "i"bjladams
    • Wow, sorry to hear that. Lost it 100%? Glad to hear you're working through it positively.elahon
  • detritus0

    What's the title of the essay you need to write?

    • This is just for my own curiosity, not for writing essay...cjfclarence
    • feels like an essay writing isnt it? hahacjfclarence
  • jetSkii0

    I don't have the power to create an iPhone. I wish I did. The technologies you listed are all the ones that helps me waste my time more efficiently. Thankfully, we have people making all its complexities a little bit easier. So since I've embraced my current life in technology, updating it would only, make it easier.

  • detritus0

    "Does continuously updating science and technology make our lives easier or harder?"

    This is a bit of a weird question, as it seems to imply there is a baseline with which to compare our current state. It also seems to imply that 'the continuous updating of science and technology' is something alien, something outside of nature. This is a mistake I feel a lot of Greenies and holistic-path nature's navel hippies seems to get lost in. Part of the very essence, or purpose, of Man is to act as a 'catalyst/enabler for meta-evolutionary pathways'.

    Compared to the presumed null state void before the 'Big Bang', the universe is unnatural. Compared to the majority of the universe we can see, Life itself is unnatural. DNA is an aberration. Perception, consciousness, intelligence and whatever comes afterwards are, in turn, too.

    A product of these increasingly unlikely aberrations, we are born unnaturally, reproduce and develop unnaturally.

    Everything that we are is an iterative function of what we've already created. From the first purposeful wielding of a club, to the spark of fire, planting of seed and everything since - all unnaturally natural.

    So, does tech make life easier? It enables our aspirations, whilst at the same time inflating them, necessitating further drives to reach ever-ascending ambitions. We will always reach. Conversely, we will always remain unfulfilled.

    So. Are things easier? Yes. I don't have to club a deer every week to eat, or synthesise my being from the base quanta or funda of the universe when I awake in the morning. I'd say that's easy. Easier, at least.

    But as a mere page or chapter in a very long book, we can expect - we MUST expect, things to be harder. We make our world more complex, and we must adapt to it.

    Otherwise we, and therefore the part of the universe we inhabit, won't evolve.

    • I've just had a joint.

      So sue me.
      detritus
    • Reading this back, I realise I have totally failed to tie the rambling points into the cohesive image I have in mind.detritus
    • Go weed.detritus
  • MrT0

    Maybe we did begin by improving our lives with the aid of new technology, but isn't it a little more complex since the industrial revolution.

    eg. 3D was originally a cinema gimmick to pull back the audiences who were staying at home watching their new TVs. People improving their lives or corporations improving their profits?