Does anyone fear technological change/advancement?

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I don't fear it, but I find a lot of it useless and annoying. I'm not opposed to advanced medical technology, for instance, but I do not get and do not want things like iPods, iPads, smart phones, eReaders, and all those other gadgets which are, IMO, completely irrelevant. I don't even own a TV, and I make coffee by boiling water and pouring it through a filter with grounds.

But then, my opinion on the internet is something else entirely. All this information at my fingertips...

Generally, I do leave the ringer off, except when I need to have it on for business. I meant that in the old days, if you were not home, or if you were away from your desk at work, etc., people would just try later, or write you a postcard, and nobody was upset. Now, if you don't snatch up the cellphone instantly and avail yourself to others' commands on their whim, you're considered antisocial. I hate that!

Charles

Technology and advancement means a longer easier life. It brings better movies more realistic video games and more intresting useful devices designed to make our lives easier and more fun. Anti-technology luddites are always complaining about teachnology but I bet each one of them has a facebook page, a cell phone, and a computer. They complain about mankind becoming dependent on technology but they refuse to do without it.

There is a darker side to techology dependence and that is mankind is loosing it's ability to function without it. Most of us can't start a fire without a lighter or a match. The simplist of things our caveman ancestors did on a daily basis. Neandethal man could not program a computer let alone use one but he could survive in the forrest unlike the majority of our prople today. If you dropped a caveman into our world he would be able to catch up to us. He would be able to figure out how to use the techology with trial and error. But if you drop a modern person into the environment of the caveman that person would either starve to death or die of dehydration if not eaten by some primordial predator.

not necessarily


i am glad i can overlook the absence of critical commas. yes your assertion is something i agree with (and there is so much more that you failed to address, which if you did, i would also agree with).




what does it matter? who cares what happens in the heads of elsewhere thinkers? as long as they stay out of my way, they are ok.



cavemen did not invent parachutes, so if you dropped a caveman into our world from a significant height, he would be killed.

neanderthals could not "catch up" to our level of thinking unless they were born into our world, and even then, they would be considered retarded. the cro magnons easily outwitted the neanderthals, and we came from the cro magnons, and the neanderthals went extinct.

they were a cut above gorillas, but a cut below humans.
they could not figure out to any reasonable degree what is the fundamental reality underlying our complex human society.

i do not agree with you.

if i was transported back (empty handed) to prehistory, then i would have to think very carefully about what to do, and i may very well succumb to the environment, but i am equipped with a brain that reduces the possibility that i would perish because of primary inadequacies





and i lived happily and forever temporarily after.

sorry i am almost asleep and my mind is dim. i am also sick with a major respiratory problem that is a handicap. i am not in full operation.

i am out of here.

Durring the Vietnam war US special forces were able to teach the Mountain Yards how to use parachutes. The Mountain Yards were a stone-age people their technology levels were similar to what the natives of the Amazon were using. If you took the average person he/she would also die from a great height if not trained in how to use a parachute properly.



I saw a video of an Amazonian Indian using an I-Pad that an anthropoligist handed him to see video of a film shot in the 60's of his grand father. He figured out how to pause, play fast foward, and reverse without guidance from the anthropologist.



Artifacts from burial sites and caves say different.

i find it going waaaaaay toooo fast, i haven't had the money to buy the technological stuff from the past years and they change everything month after month.., i 'm also afraid of the world becoming futuristic like star wars.. and really those future car builders are making look so ugly! who would wanna drive such an ugly thing.. i would also not wanna fly a car... they should focus on making the world green but beautiful.. i find it pretty great the way it is besides the fact that the world is becoming more asfalty instead of green.