Do you agreee with them? Why or why not?
By youetme
@youetme (351)
China
April 3, 2009 8:16pm CST
Some people say tha in the highly developed industrial and material Society, people are degernerating and are being dehumanized,and people can not live in hamony with nature .With the coming of globalizatin,cross-cultural commnuincation will be increaingly important . The human will face so many problems such as envireomental change,acute social conflict . According to your understand,do you agree wiht them? why or why not?
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@maezee (41985)
• United States
4 Apr 09
Oh man - I just wrote a super-long response to this and I accidentally deleted it. 
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Ok..I think that the world's technological/industrial advancement has both obvious benefits & drawbacks, so it's hard to say whether or not it's ultimately doing good for society. With these advancements, we've eradicated diseases due to scientific discoveries, we've found new ways to communicate and better our every-day lives, and we've created this huge world market. The setbacks, of course, include being too dependent on foreign/imported goods, the environmental toll of having factories and other "industrial" places of work, and of course human rights/child labor issues involved with overseas minimum-wage sweatshops. There are plenty of issues to consider, even more-so personal ones such as losing touch with our culture due to mass industrialization. I think we could go on for HOURS (literally) trying to decide whether or not it's all been "worth it".
. OOPS.
Ok..I think that the world's technological/industrial advancement has both obvious benefits & drawbacks, so it's hard to say whether or not it's ultimately doing good for society. With these advancements, we've eradicated diseases due to scientific discoveries, we've found new ways to communicate and better our every-day lives, and we've created this huge world market. The setbacks, of course, include being too dependent on foreign/imported goods, the environmental toll of having factories and other "industrial" places of work, and of course human rights/child labor issues involved with overseas minimum-wage sweatshops. There are plenty of issues to consider, even more-so personal ones such as losing touch with our culture due to mass industrialization. I think we could go on for HOURS (literally) trying to decide whether or not it's all been "worth it".
@animestan (321)
• Canada
12 Oct 09
I do agree with that. More so that technology is being relied on too much. Lets just say the guess that in 2012 there will be a solar flare wiping out all electronics,then what would happen from there. We would need to learn how to survive like people did a while ago without electricity. But i'm sure some people would go pretty much insame.
@laglen (19759)
• United States
4 Apr 09
I do agree and another thing that concerns me a lot is the fact that you can now live your whole life with never having human contact. You can work from your computer, bank, shop, order food, etc. I think this lack of contact and an overload of information will lead to a bad future.
