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[sheepdog]

I don't know if you could actually call it slavery or not, but without a doubt, man is definatly hooked, and very dependent on technology. As if computers and cell phones weren't enough, now they even have robots preforming surgery. Now that is pretty scary if you ask me. I do believe people would be in very bad shape if it all was taken away from them. Stand along a busy road some day and watch the people in passing cars, I'd say at least one in every 4 that goes by is going to have a cell phone stuck to their ear. Cashiers in most stores don't even know how to count back change to customers anymore without the computerised cash register to tell them how much change to give back. I'm no better than everybody else, nearly 100% of my marketing is done on computer. (though I could happily live with the cell phone.) Maybe because of my age, a lot of this new technology came about after I was well past my impressionable years, in all honesty, if there was another way to market, or ways to do without all the technology, I'd be just fine with it. Heck, I even still know how to ride a horse!

[Vistz]

I believe that man is a slave of technology. The whole point of technology in general is to make a certain task easier and/or more efficient. If you had the option of using said technology or discard it, man would generally choose the technology. Therefore, man becomes dependent upon technology. If someone is using Technology X to complete a task, he will likely switch to Technology Y if it completes the task faster/more efficiently given that it is affordable and convenient and etc.. Technology is being designed in such a way that it adapts to society. But, I feel, for the few instances where the technology does not adapt, people will adapt so that they can glean the most benefits.

[Quatrux]

Todays most people are dependent on technology, as a lot of different tasks can't be made without technology, just imagine if some services goes off, internet, gsm, people wouldn't know what to do, most of things would stop and nothing would continue to progress.

Even if internet would continue to work, but lets say banks would stop working, a lot of things would stop, you couldn't leave without technology today, people would go back over 100 years, I guess as it would be very hard to adopt, there could be a lot of scenarios and panic

I believe I am a slave of technology, I couldn't live without a computer for over a month, or without my mobile phone, unless I would have different income and could still live, then maybe I could live without a computer? but I doubt it

Technology is slave of human, as usually it does the tasks almost for free for humans, especially automatized machines in factories and over places. Robots might one day rebel to not be slaves, but work for a normal salary and have rights

As years ago, it was normal for people to be slaves, now it's something terrible, so with time things change.

[missy2205]

Oh My God this is such an obvios thing. Of course man is a slave of the Tech world. Just open your eyes and look around you. I thought thinks are there to make life easier and to do stuff for you but we spend all this time attending to our gadgets. Most of us have laptops and the first thing we do wen we get up is go on face book and log into skype god forbid there be someone who may have left a life and death mesage on my skype. As for my boyfreiend we actually have fights because he caqnt spend anytime with me n just because he wants to go on skype / facebook all the time

I mean if its not Facebook or skype its email or Nintendo Wii or Playstation or Andriod. We seem to be chasing after technology all the time. We get paid only to run to the nearest gadget shop to get the latest Ipod or Ipad or ISlave I-am a slave of technology product. Lol. I meane there are kids who are actually texterholics there is now an official desease which is based on kids who just can stop texting all the time I know a documentary where they were suing phone companies because the phone companies had offered unlimited text yet when they texted over 12000 texts they were then charged because of the fair Usage policy stated in the small print.

I always wonered what the heck how does one go through 12 000 texts. And then I got a phone and realised me and ny friends would hardfly call each other but woud text each other, we would group chat whic is say have 5 friends all chatting so we have to send each text to 5 people at once and because the texts were free we would ask sucj silly questions using text like u ok? then responce to that would be at Gemmas my response doing wat? wana go shopping. and before you know it we have sent like 15 texts each.

I know that I thought I was in controll until my first bill came along and I realised that whilst I had stayed within my text limits I had used almost 7 500 texts in that months what more those kids I see in the buss or at Uni who always have their heads bowed and their finger twiddling on the phone keyboard. Their bills must be massive i bet they exceed 12 000 texts a month. And of course my boyfrind and his Video Games on the phone on the computer on the Telly. Hes just a slave of that. He has to work at 9 am but goes to bed about 4am especially with the introduction of the online gaming of Playstation where you can play games with other people around the world. He even has the headset so they can chat to other gamers in the game world. I remember when he used to spend 3 or 4 days without a wink of sleep when he discovered a game called second life and would spend every mintue on their playing the virtuall world game. I bet he though he was in control but nahhhh the tech world had enslaved him. He would only get up to go to the toilet and on the way back get a can of juice in the fridge and a sandwich to much and its back to Second Life. I remember we wouldnt make love for weeks and I was frustrated and angry with the game and the Internet cause back then I wasnt into technology now loook at me heheheh the firswt thing I do since I got my laptop is check me messages on facebook and skype and MSN chat bwith my friends from around the globe and then get up and make breakfast lol. Ididnt realise this till a while backl when I realised I am a slave to the Tech World

I mean just look at some people who will spend the day on Trap17 not a bad thing but just saying people are addicted to technology.

[Teyu]

I think the man is addicted to technology, not a slave.
Through our history, man has always pursued technological advances either to defend themselves from enemies, live better, or whatever.
Thats why I think we are addicted more than slaves.
If for some reason we had to stop living with the technological advances of today, it would take time to adjust but only to return to find ways to make further progress.

[Patrascu]

Erdemir, on 11 August 2008 - 08:03 AM, said:

In my opinion, people are slaves of technology, but technology is a slave of people who are engineers or scientists.
If you can't develop technology you are a slave of technology, if you are a developer you make the technology your slave.

I totally agree with Erdemir. I don't see people slave's of technology as you can't be creating new technologies being that kind of a being. Of course nowadays people have an incredible addiction or better said dependence to technologies such as TV, internets, fancy cars, MP3s, mobile phones and many others since they make our life easier.

[sheepdog]

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Sure it has transformed my life from being social and active to quiet and lazy

See, this is what bugs me. Now we sit and play with our gizmo's and do not interact with other humans on a direct and personal level. Kids don't get on their bikes and ride to the playground to play with their friends. Humans are CONSTANTLY "in touch" with each other, but not together, and if your sending that many texts per day as some teenagers do you are definalty in constant contact. Doesn't anybody feel the need for some space occasionally? Just a few minutes where nobody can bug you? Just some nice quite time by yourself where your thoughts are your own? I live for those moments. Am I weird? I love road trips where I can drive for mile and miles with just my own company. No cell phones for me thank you.

Another thing that scares me is that we are being conditioned to be acustom to not actually owning anything, and spending all our money on these basicly worthless gadgets. I've been hearing a lot lately about being in the cloud. We will be paying for things like books, music and movies but we won't own them, they will be in a "cloud" stored on somebody somewhere's computer, but we will have no tangable property. So the wind comes along and blows the cloud away and what do you have to show for the money you have spent on these kinds of products?

We can say that technoligy is here to help us, and to make our lives easier all we want to, but I really have some serious doubts that it's the truth.