Don't you think that technology has advanced quite quickly?

@waynet (2649)
January 12, 2007 8:57pm CST
I find it strange that technology has advanced at an astonishing rate, especially in the last 100 years or so, everything we know today has been created in this short space of time, and I am either wondering we are just simply great at inventing or some other worldly intervention has took place, the roswell crash, and other events spring to mind.
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@asfi123 (951)
• India
13 Jan 07
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technological societies are inherently flawed a priori. They suggest that the result of such a society is to become evermore technological at the cost of freedom and psychological health (and probably physical health in general, as pollution from technological products is dispersed). The difference in a persons attitude towards technology is dependent on that persons exposure to it rather than the notion that it is age that determines positivity/negativity.
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@waynet (2649)
15 Jan 07
Thanks for your excellently worded comments, they are much appreciated!!
@plumwish07 (4057)
• Indonesia
13 Jan 07
thats is true that technology has advanced quite quickly. we can see this in mobile phone technology for example. new product and new feature always launced in every three months. how amazing, right? its also proove that human being is very incredible creatures in this worlds
@waynet (2649)
13 Jan 07
Or that we have help from higher beings intent on poking their sticks in the cage at us, the experiment gone wrong!
@asfi123 (951)
• India
14 Jan 07
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The difference in a persons attitude towards technology is dependent on that persons exposure to it rather than the notion that it is age that determines positivity/negativity. On the somewhat pessimistic side are certain philosophers like Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Ellul, and John Zerzan, who believe that technological societies are inherently flawed a priori. They suggest that the result of such a society is to become evermore technological at the cost of freedom and psychological health (and probably physical health in general, as pollution from technological products is dispersed). Perhaps the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics On the other hand, the optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of views or ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, that view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition. In these ideologies, technological development is morally good. Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism or techno-utopianism and fear the idea of technological singularity which they support.
• Philippines
13 Jan 07
That's actually normal waynet, we do invent things just to make our lives easier and don't want to be left behind... although some are overdoing it, some inventions created are not anymore environmental friendly--they just use it for a big sum of money or ....POWER
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@waynet (2649)
13 Jan 07
Yes but it does seem strange that we invented all this stuff supposedly by ourselves with no help from outside sources, such as alien civilisations visiting our world.