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[iGuest]

technology rock!!!!
Technology

I get tired of people that say technology is straight up bad. It is not. Maybe those kind of people just need to be be removed from the city-life and go live on a farm somewhere.

No, wait - even farms have lots of technology. If you think that technology is bad push the little "power" button on your computer, get up and go do something more productive with your time.

Technology helps us out a lot more than we know. If we actually took the time to think about it, we would realize that technology has become the norm in society, but we have taken advantage of it.

So I guess that maybe we just need a break from the rush of clicking our "mice" and tapping our keyboards at 50wpm. Technology has given a lot of people life. If you go up to those people and say: "Technology is bad". They are most likely going to slap you in the face (with words and maybe even physically) then tell you that your full of poo.

It just depends on the person that it viewing the subject: "Technology". Good and bad. It's the same with people. There has to be good and there has to be bad.


--- Doran *Dorknob*

[iGuest]

Should there be a stopping point to technology? Sure there are great achievements that have come from it. But it is obvious that we have strayed from life's simplicities that make life worthwhile such as a walk outside or a face to face conversation with someone.

A philosopher once described that we should live our life in the middle of two extremes... This is a good value to have, and it applies to this scenario. We should use technology to help us in our lives, like say for cooking, driving, or calling home when you can't talk to your loved ones in person but we should make an effort to stop being dependent on technology.

[nirmaldaniel]

This is a most common question that arises among most of the people that whether technology is good or bad,

some may claim it to be bad because of some personnel experiences and some may claim it good because of

someother personnel experiences

According to me Technology is Good if we use it in the right way and on the other hand it can be made Bad ,

But please Note that as it is it is not Bad.

Let me Quote some Examples man Discoverted the flying machince and it was a great tecnolagical upgradation

but when we see the recent past it was used for a mass destruction the Twin Tower attack. This is and

example of using technology in the wrong way.

Another Quote is that the invention of Bombs and Snipper Riffles , these are used by the people for

Destruction Purpose . For this too i cam quote an example . In the recent past the pakistan former President

Benezir Bhutto Was killed . This is an Clear cut example for bad usage of the technological Upgradation

But we should not conclude that technology is Bad seeing These Examples.

Just think for a while how many of us tune in out television to see the weather report and the forecasting , how

many of us like to watch a LIVE match in the telivision , how many of us can live without a refrigirator. All

these things ares just simple examples of the modern technology.

So MY CONCLUSION is that Technology as of it is neither good nor bad, it is all about How we make it . We

can take it as good , or we can take it as bad. Just It is left to you.

[iGuest]

Replying to zipple
I think you are wrong when you say that technology to amoral because if you use the technology to do bad things then is the technology a bad thing? So many diseases and harmful things have been created in our "new age". Even things created for entertainment purposes are being misused and violated. Now when our country is in a time of need for education and prosperity so called "genius'" are advancing our world. When all they are doing is hurting it!

-reply by Uwish

[iGuest]

technology good or bad??
Technology

Technology in the hands of the 'right person' can do great things, but in the hands of the 'wrong person' can lead to major problems. Like someone said before "if you leave the knife alone it's neither good nor bad, it's what you choose to do with it"

-reply by partyman2229

[iGuest]

techno makes us dependant (collectively)
Technology

The problem with technology, is that it may make us Dependant from it. Once again, it's a matter of how to use it, but when some technology becomes a social standard, the social relationships may depend or be influenced by it. Also if you don't materially possess this technology, you may become marginalized.

So I believe the principle of technology itself isn't good nor bad, but that depends on how we all use it, not just individually.

Also, there are some bad technologies I think. Most armament technology I would qualify it as bad, as it's main purpose is to harm, kill or control others. But I suppose it depends on what you consider good or bad...

By the way, concerning the "similar topic" about technology, I'd say that technology IS probably the alienation itself. Aren't we all becoming aliens, little by little? The question is: what kind of aliens are we building today for tomorrow? good or bad?

[iGuest]

Yes I believe that technology can be good in some ways, because take for example back in the days it was different, we didn't have trains and buses then to get us where people needed to go but now times are made better then they used to be and we have better ways of making living more easier.

But if we use technology in the wrong way there is a problem, thats why we should use techology for the good reasons not the bad.

-reply by mizzluved

[iGuest]

too much use
Technology

I belive that we use technology way to much. I mean thats all we realy rely on. If people were to go back to omish days they would go crazy. Technology is the reason for all the crap thats going on in the world. Technology was dropped on heroshima. So all I'm saying is technology is BAD!

-reply by Brier53

[Okara KAmi]

As mentioned before, Technology is amoral. Now it doesn't matter who uses it, because as said before, giving it to different types of people will inevtiably render different results. Technology is a tool to be used, it can't be avoided. Many people associate technology with dehumanization, saying that it takes away more and more of the things that makes us human.

For example, now technology can be used to travel, where as before people walked to places, I'm not just talking about cars but carriages and chariots are all forms of technology. People believe that withe the coming of this tool, we are becoming more and more dependent upon it, thus losing more and more of what makes us who we are. But is that a bad thing?

If it weren't for technology, we would be modern men walking around in what looked like the Australopithecus's age. What's the point in intellect and thought when we refuse to use it to our advantage?

So technology is a tool, it can be used to make things easier, or make things a lot more complicated (Nuclear Bombs). A wrench is a wrench, I can use it to fix your car or hit you upon the head and steal your money, in the end I am responsible for m actions, not the wrench =)

[iGuest]

Technology is amoral IF your worldview holds to the notion that there is no Designer who has an opinion in the matter of our technology. But if your worldview, as mine does, holds to the notion that there is a Designer who has purposes behind all He has created then any technology that is launched without first consulting with the Designer is immoral because the purpose of the inventor of this Universe was not brought in at the beginning nor His thoughts consulted. Lets just take the automobile and the combustion engine that drives it. This innovation has killed millions and millions and maimed millions and millions more. No one who invented this technology gave thought to whether it was kin keeping with the Designer's will or purposes. So now we have a technology on which we depend (because our society was organized around gasoline engines) that kills millions, depends on oil and so is about to ruin our economies. What if someone had prayed and looked into the Designer's will and found out that we should be developing solar powered means of transport and invented that method way back then or perhaps whole communities rejected the auto (the old order Amish) and have never killed anyone with an automobile and are not dependent on oil). Nearly all technology is human ego driven, not driven by a desire to show God how grateful we are for His creation. Hence most technology is immoral at its inception and almost every innovation is inimical to the ultimate destiny of human beings and our welfare.

-reply by karl kindt