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Actually new technology IS forced on others-see the countless peoples killed by weapons of war. They didn't choose to get bombed out by a GPS guided missile, di

Actually new technology IS forced on others-see the countless peoples killed by weapons of war. They didn't choose to get bombed out by a GPS guided missile, did they? What about the people killed after the atomic bomb killings? Technology is forced on everyone. Things we thought were convenient (cars, ships, the ICE, fossil fuels) may now plunge the planet into chaos and cause immense damage to our environment. Many people who have never had the choice of owning a car are now suffering from droughts and famine because of fossil fuel burning. It's naive to say technology isn't forced. It is, and always will be. Again, easy for us to say in the west, especially the US. We've seen a lot of the good, but we too have seen the bad. It's typically neutral. Technology is not universally beneficial. You can go back maybe to the first group of humans who used a fire to survive a cold spell but since then, there has been destructive and constructive technology.

julianmarq 9y ago
> Again, easy for us to say in the west, especially the US. We've seen a lot of the good, but we too have seen the bad. I, for one, am not in the US, pal; I'm in a third world country riddled with conflict and crime. Stop the sad regionalism. Your morality babble still doesn't change the fact that automation and technology have made us the most successful species. Even your ludicrous "for every good some bad has come" is false on its face. If it were true, the population would forever stay the same. > Technology is not universally beneficial. Again, nobody claimed it was, what was claimed was the net effect, and that has been positive. I don't even know why I'm wasting my time having a discussion with someone who thinks technology isn't "good" (and you do think that, you think it's "neutral", not "good")... over the internet. In other words: If it weren't for technology, you couldn't be whining about how awful it is from your iPhone, buddy.

julianmarq 9y ago

> Again, easy for us to say in the west, especially the US. We've seen a lot of the good, but we too have seen the bad. I, for one, am not in the US, pal; I'm in a third world country riddled with conflict and crime. Stop the sad regionalism. Your morality babble still doesn't change the fact that automation and technology have made us the most successful species. Even your ludicrous "for every good some bad has come" is false on its face. If it were true, the population would forever stay the same. > Technology is not universally beneficial. Again, nobody claimed it was, what was claimed was the net effect, and that has been positive. I don't even know why I'm wasting my time having a discussion with someone who thinks technology isn't "good" (and you do think that, you think it's "neutral", not "good")... over the internet. In other words: If it weren't for technology, you couldn't be whining about how awful it is from your iPhone, buddy.