Fandango’s Provocative Question 6: Technology: Plus or Not?
As the owner and user of a lot of medical technology, I can say for 100% that without it, I’d be dead. Actually, I probably wouldn’t have made it out of childhood. I’d have died from ear infections, lung infections, throat and sinus and who knows what else. Or polio or any of the other diseases from which vaccinations saved us.
Technology at work
But then, there is plastic. Bags, bottles, straws. and all the pollution we pour into our oceans, air, and water. All the large mammals we’ve slaughtered until most of them are gone … or soon will be.
Fracking? Seriously? Driving a shaft deep into the heart of the earth? What could possibly go wrong with that?
Pacemaker
I’m not enough of a hypocrite to pretend that all advancement through technology is bad, but we need to find a balance. Some way in which humans can make healthy progress that doesn’t destroy the world we live in. If we destroy our planet, no amount of “technology” or “improvement” will make our lives better. If we ruin our own habitat, we will be like all the other vanishing species. Gone.
Sometimes, that’s what I think we ought to be. A vanishing species. If we can’t do good, we might as well be gone.
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You’re covering a lot of territory so it’s difficult to say whether it’s all good or not.
Leslie
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Well said. All the points are valid. I wonder when will those in power realize it.
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I think WE — people — know there’s a difference between producing anything we can to make some money and producing things that actually make life better. But the guys who make “the stuff” don’t get it at all.
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Yes! Money making has become all important. At whatever cost.
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So much of the stuff that “technology” produces is junk. And that includes a lot of our very expensive gadgets — phones and tablets and mini tablets and all that other crap. It’s just grown-up toys and it isn’t advancing civilization — or even our households!
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Yes, most the stuff we use is unnecessary.
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