I see technology as something that is bad. First bad thing. Tech is creating a generation of lazy people that do not know how to create the very basic things needed in life without help. If you doubt your helplessness turn off your breaker power to your house. Another bad part is Technology is creating a socitey where the more tech you have the easier it is to live thousands of miles away from the people you love and should be with. What made the greatest generation great? I think if you look at your grandparents they worked hard and did alot more outdoors work and were generally more healthy then current fat lazy people of generation x and beyond. Bottom line is the strugle is the glory. The Lazier people become the fatter and unheatly people get. Technology contributes to laziness in a big way. Think of what could be accomplished if the Average American didn't watch 7 hours of tv a day. Ask yourself do you really need a TV and how is it bettering your life?
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I can't really see your problem, you are free to live your life as you see fit, if you want to live in some wilderness you can do it, if you want to live without technology, you can do it you have made no mention of the advantages that technology has brought us all, why not? \nI think the main clue is the 'Family' bit, living away from home etc.\nIf that is indeed the case, technology has enabled your family to reunite whenever they feel the need, no matter how many miles away they are!\nAs for the 'healthy' bit, I am sure that you know as well as I do that thanks to technology we are all living longer (fat or not)!\nAs for the TV that is a matter of choice watch it or not.\nAnd if it wasn't watched as you suggest what indeed could be accomplished, more technology?\nI think you have just got a weight off your chest by writing this question , it certainly helps doesn't it?\nGood look if you are really trying to send us back to the dark ages, but I don't think you really mean it ?
248491
Television. Pure and simple. We are not genetically or biologically any more or less able, we just have the world dumbed down for us so that we don't have to live up to anything. (I say this as an American). Also, many people here enjoy being ignorant, which is something that I don't understand. May I apologize for the ignorance of many of my fellow citizens. Not all of us are that dumb, after all. Peace out.
47618
I love you for this.\n\nYou see we have to reduce our wants, settle for whatever is good for us, not whatever is best -Best is the enemy of good.\n\nWe are driven so hard by our own desires and wants that we fail to see where we are heading or what are we doing to those who matter most.\n\nJust imagine, around twenty years ago we could do without a cell phone but today it is a necassity and we are compelled to pay the bills by adding yet another expense to our budget. This in turn makes us work longer hours, may be accomodate this payment within our budgets. One more item to worry about.\n\nIf we look around us, there could be anumber of things that we could do without but we just don't for any reason. Our desires run us, not us running our desires.\n\nThis is a subject for a much detailed discussion, but am glad there is someone who at least realizes the trade off that we are making.
228084
I was a kid in the 40's and 50's and it was a strong family society.  Marriage was a commitment for life.  Today, people live together and have sex before marriage, have children out of marriage, depend on the Government to take care of them, and have no strong ties with other family members.  Education is down the tubes.  Kids leave school without being able to read, write and spell; look at the "Answer" question and answers sometimes.  If we don't stop the illegal immigration we will have a group of illiterate adults who have no skills to do the technological jobs.  If we don't stop the growth of the Government, we will have more than half the people working for the other half.  Society has changed from when I was a boy and it is scary.  I think we are headed in the wrong direction socially.
408126
In one way you are right. It is true technology has pretty much made American students... dumber. One evidence of this is our present and our history. Many immigrants do come to the U.S. to strive for a better education which was never provided in their home land, but there are also those who do not aim for that education. There are many who just go to school to cause chaos and distractions for other students, and get involved in gangs and of the likes. Simply, immigrants aren't really to blame.
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I don't think it has corrupted the human race. I think its just allowed access for people to do things more easily. The human race has been corrupted since Adam & Eve took of the fruit of Good and Evil. Technology is just another path in which people allow themselves to sin. Technology is a good thing and every good gift comes from God. But its when it is used in a immoral way that is corrupt, and that's because of personal choice, not technology itself.
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It's the same reason why you don't just buy one TV and keep it forever.\n\nFor one thing, it's really hard to make a TV that lasts forever.  Even barring major accidents, some parts just wear out with use over time.  And don't underestimate the wearing effect of the environment - if it can tear down mountains, then your TV (or you) don't stand a chance.\n\nThen there's always the adjustment factor.  If everyone only needed one TV to last them their whole life, who would make it?  Not any kind of multinational TV-making factory - such a thing would go out of business fast, with so little demand.  Likewise with people:  If people reproduced at their current rate and lived forever, we'd have to have constant, brutal, bloody war to relieve the population pressure.  Or just almost never produce children at all and then get wiped out by the next Black Plague that came along.\n\nAnd then there's HDTVs.  Who wants to be stuck with a cruddy low-tech TV when they can get the latest thing?  For that matter, do you even SEE any of the really old picture tubes that take a half-hour to warm up any more?  The answer (except for museums) is no.  There aren't any long-lived TVs because they are replaced by younger, better ones.  So too with people - every parent usually wants their children to do better than themselves... should they succeed in such an endeavor, what place would the world have for them, then?\n\nSo people don't live forever for the same reason your TV isn't around forever:  it's ridiculously hard to do in the first place, doesn't take into consideration larger factors in production, and prevents too easy a possibility of obsolescence.\n\nNone of this, of course, means it's IMPOSSIBLE for a person or a people to be made to live forever, mind you.  There are many legends of people who already do, and many scientists who are ardently working toward exactly this goal.  Are they true?  Will they succeed?  Only time will tell...
162031
Yeah, global capitalist is rigth. We use those kind of things to kill the time. To have a good time, to have fun, to laugth, to be kewl.\n\nMaybe we shouldn't just be looking at intrinsically valuable TV programs, like Alejozilva said, but we could spend our time, reading, practicing some sport, or working out, or spending time with our children if we have. \n\nOr answering questions in Yahoo Answers! rigth? lol
3279
As far as booksmarts & the ability to multitask goes, we will be smarter. As far as common sense, I believe that we have already gotten dimmer over even the last ten years. The ease of technology on our everyday lives, I think, is undermining our common sense & street smarts :)\n\nGood question!
267560
I think we cant minimize it. As we all know technology is changing fast and we dont want to be left behind. Yes, there are disadvantages but its advantages can out weigh them.
510287
Technology gets better and better all the time. In 20 years, there could be more advanced computers and maybe a new source of fuel for cars. It is hard to say what will happen in 20 years.
584196
Science, just like every other area of human involvement has a good and bad side - it's a reflection of who we are as a nation, culture, or individual. In fact most human developments are, by themselves, neutral - neither good nor bad. It's their use that we judge one way or another.\n\nA case in point - the development of the science of electronics: semiconductors, transistors, computer technology and the WWW has led to countless benefits for many of us, but these technologies used to unconstitutionally spy on American citizens is unquestionably bad.\n\nAnother point: medical science has developed incredible technology to keep us healthy and cure our ailments, but keeping these advances only for the wealthy or only for the most profitable areas is shameless in the face of so much everyday human tragedy.
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Extended life span\nBetter health\nBiochips and implants that aid people with all kinds of bisabilities.\nAnd later...\nHuman designed mutations and designer babies.\nThere will be a lot of problems, of ocurse, but in the future, maybe we will be able to use technology instead of being used by it.  If we developed technologies, maybe they have also been misunderstood.  Maybe tech is our evolutive advantage and we should embrace it instead of fear it.
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We used to live this way before the internet so very common. We actually went to librarys and spent $$ on books and music. I think the internet makes people lazy. \nNow I wouldn't say that it's not helpful, but every weekend I stay with my boyfriend and he does not have internet access, and I am just fine. Instead of being on the computer every 6 seconds, we actually go out and enjoy life. \nNext time you are without internet, go grab a fishing rod and cast a few...it's really relaxing and you'd be surprised what you could catch. Go out and enjoy life..there's so much more out there then sitting on your ass all day searching sites :)
89540
The emotional support and mental support that a person gains from true love that has developed over time is something that technology could never replace.  Without it, our society will be souless and lacking a deeper understanding of what it means to love another person.  \n\nThen you have the subject of parenting.  It takes two to parent, in an ideal situation.  A man is different from a women and a child needs both.  It is proven that children benefit from growing up in a home with both poarents who love each other.  I feel guilty about that because I am a single parent and hate my daughter father.\n\nSo yeah, technology can't touch that, no matter what a swinger or a feminist or a domineering woman with her kids in the daycare all day and night say.  No offense to anyone out there...  ;)
437882
That there should be health warning sign's on technology for people over 50. Because old people and technology don't mix, I'm alway's telling my mum off for crashing her computer!\n\nLike on home Mobile phone's it could say : Warning this device can show your family your low IQ. Please hold up the right way up.\n\nOn PCs : Warning please do not use without the permission of your children. \n\n\nAlso I'd make all chocolate free.  :o)
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I think it is stupid to use machines.\nAs Americans, we are spoiled.\nWe need to be patient once in a while, because time gives you greater accuracy.