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• vouaobrasil 3y ago
  Glib analogy, but there's got to be a limit to everything. Beyond resorting to superficial analogies, we should give serious thought into what level of technology is simply too much. Moreover, I actually agree with you in some ways, even though you meant to be sarcastic. Modern cutting technology, which certainly should include deep-well oil drilling, IS too much. In fact, all technology has a limit beyond which we should not go. We just have to apply deep thinking to figure out what it is, or at least do our best to try. You
  • _factor 3y ago
    You’re more likely to get cut with a dull knife. It can cause it to slip. Technology is fine. It’s this artificial cookie-cutter society we’re forcing on everyone. We have a mental health and education problem. The tech isn’t the issue, it’s the people who feel the need to use it for negative purposes. Limiting tech is just a bandaid.
    • vouaobrasil 3y ago
      People will always use technology for negative purposes as long as it can help them get ahead in the short term and they aren't held accountable for the long-term consequences. Technology is not fine. Not all of it is bad, but to say all of it is fine makes no sense. Yes, we have a mental and health education problem, but it's reasonable to have rules for all societies. Limiting technology that makes getting ahead too easy makes sense because even in the most utopian and good societies, if gaining something is TOO EASY, then it WILL be taken. It's much too simplistic to frame technology as fine. If all technology is fine, perhaps every corner store should sell automatic weapons? Can you imagine a society, ANY society, in which this makes sense?
      • signatoremo 3y ago
        Technology is never a problem. Automatic weapons can also be used in defense. Someone with a knife wouldn’t be able to confront a mass killer with a rifle. You are talking about mental problem. Do you know what have contributed to mental problem ever since the existence of human being? Isolation and loneliness, which technologies such as telephone, email and yes, social network can help with. Name any technology that should be banned, and I can give you a reason why it should be not.
    • jabradoodle 3y ago
      Nowhere did OP suggest limiting tech, they suggested we are not ready to handle the powers we are gaining responsibily. Your point seems in agreement with this to a degree. More importantly, you claim it to be a mental health/education issue; yet you can't show me a period of human history without wars and power struggles.
  • JackFr 3y ago
    I was being sarcastic, I don’t think I was necessarily being glib. I suppose the deeper point I was trying to make was that “this time is different/special” is shallow thinking, as is believing that the real issue is with our “current greedy short term thinking”. The real issue is the human condition, which remains largely as it has throughout our history. We need to choose a way to live knowing we will die, and then live that way.
    • vouaobrasil 3y ago
      This time is different....highest CO2 level in 800,000 years, highest human population ever. Seems like a bit of uniqueness there.
  • wegfawefgawefg 3y ago
    Cars can be used to ram people. But most people simply dont want to do that. What is different about cars and new tech is that new tech comes with the ability to track and monitor all users. So historically we didnt mind if one in ten million people wanted to ram people with their truck on purpose. But now the power to monitor everyone all the time to prevent these "one in ten million" crimes exists. Its up to you to decide if the trade off is worth it.
  • wegfawefgawefg 3y ago
    I want to become a von neumann probe, fill the universe with my offspring and go to war. Until tech can do that it hasnt gone far enough.