George_Washington
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Kandahar said:Also I disagree with your statement about the arts. On the contrary, I think technology has greatly expanded humanity's capacity for art. There are now entirely new mediums of art (MMORPGs and virtual reality), as well as more accessibility for the "common person" to produce art through the older mediums.
Scarecrow Akhbar said:Beauty? What can be more beautiful than watching the Concorde fly? A most gorgeous bit of technology. Unless it's a Space Shuttle carrying your baby out of the nest to work and live, like when they launched AXAF. A state of the art advanced X-Ray telescope rising into the sky on column fire, linking man's newest achievement with his oldest discovery.
And this worship of architecture is misplaced. Throughout history, most buildings were functional. Why pay the expense of gingerbreading the place?
And even worse, most people don't have the sense of beauty God put in a horse's ***. Just one of those annoying facts of life, I guess.
Stinger said:What a nobrainer. Of course technology can bring happiness, would you rather be living in the days of no sanatation, unsafe food supplies, limited commuinication, very basic and not very compitent medical care?
Stinger said:What a nobrainer. Of course technology can bring happiness, would you rather be living in the days of no sanatation, unsafe food supplies, limited commuinication, very basic and not very compitent medical care?
George_Washington said:Well yeah dude, in those ways it can. But the issue just really isn't that simple. Yes, we need mass communication and good health care. But I'm talking about technological things that people use every day in their lives, you know, consumer products.
Synch said:Complications and stress reduce happiness,
nuclear warfare adds fear in our everyday life,
deadlier weapons aren't so safe easy, the world is much smaller and complicated.
Disease spreads much quicker,
before the age of trading in the middle ages disease, warfare, and horrible happenings were contained.
There is no secret anymore, the age of information where nothing is kept secret, warfare spreads quickly like wildfire.
George_Washington said:Well yeah dude, in those ways it can. But the issue just really isn't that simple. Yes, we need mass communication and good health care. But I'm talking about technological things that people use every day in their lives, you know, consumer products.
Scarecrow Akhbar said:You know...refrigeration.
Air conditioning.
Indoor toilets.
Hot showers.
Safety razors.
Electric Shave.
Deodorant.
Soap.
Teflon coated pans.
Gas stoves.
Latex condoms.
The lathe.
Electric motors.
Elevators.
Elevator shoes.
Birth Control pills.
Electric guitars.
Paternity testing.
MRI's.
Stainless steel.
Pre-stressed concrete.
Silicon chips.
Pamela Anderson.
Lasers.
Little magnetic stripes on little plastic cards.
Cash registers in Kuala Lumpur that can query your bank in New York for instant sales.
Pineapples in the Portland Maine supermarket in December.
An entire concert in a little MP3 player.
Optics and eyewear.
Electric lights.
Taking less than six days to travel on the ground from New York to Los Angeles.
Flying to New York from Los Angeles in six hours.
Calling Los Angeles from New York in less than half a second.
The clock on my wrist.
Not being naked on a cold winter's day.
Yeah, there's a lot to be thankful for with technology. Clearly there's no downside to it.
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