From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 11 2005 - 15:35:57 BST
--- "Arlo J. Bensinger" <ajb102@psu.edu> wrote:
> Erin, Ian, Khaled,
>
> [Erin asked]
> Maybe this is something though...does an expectation
> for technology to solve
> your problems lead to technological hopelessness?
>
> [Ian repsonded]
> Technology (eg a stone age axe) is just a tool in
> human hands. As Erin says -
> Don't ever blame the technology.
>
> [Arlo]
> Which I think echoes what Khaled was saying all
> along. That "human hands" have
> not changed very much over the years, only what
> tools they happen to hold at
> any given time. That is, we haven't *really* evolved
> very much, have we?
It's not just the title (the failure of
technology..the rise of Indian culture or something
like that) but some of the things said didn't give me
that impression. Khaled's question was about the
quality of life being improved or not. Yes technology
to me has improved the quality of life.....but there
is a paradox of progress. Technology gives us much
time-saving devices (e.g. washing machines) but then
we seem to be busy as ever. I think that it has
increased quality of life because although as busy as
we are now we have more choices of how to spend our
time.
Technology also gives us devices that suck up time
like computers where people spend tons of time in
discussion groups but its the person's choice to spend
their time that way. I would rather be surfing than
washing clothes by hand right now.
So you want to say the environment has changed but
human hands haven't changed very much?.....don't
know...in some ways I agree with that
sentiment..people are people but that isn't really the
sentiment I got from the posts I commented on...also
think there might be a little underestimation of the
role of environment there.
I think we are changing...I heard some statistic a
long time ago but can't remember the exact numbers of
how much information a modern person comes across vs.
somebody from the past. The difference was
incredible... I actually have mixed feelings about
that though....sometimes there just seems to be an
information overload in modern times, but maybe that
should just be approached as more choices too?
Erin
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