Technology- a blessing or a curse?
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Medical - blessing: obviously because of human health\ncurse: longer life expectancy means larger population means more strain on resources\n\nCommunication - blessing: it "lubricates" getting things done\ncurse: it takes out the human element of a face to face conversation which is bad from a cultural and psychological perspective\n\nAgricultural - blessing: makes it easier and cheaper to farm\ncurse: it takes the place of human labor\n\nDermatological - blessing: um...better skin?\ncurse: um...people get jealous of other people with better skin?\n\nWarfare - blessing: better protection for the entity with the technology\ncurse: in the wrong hands, it can be used for dominance and persecution (such as if Hitler would have gotten a nuclear weapon first)\n\nDomestic - blessing: new inventive ways of cleaning, cooking, sewing make life easier\ncurse: your wife doesn't have to spend as much time cleaning and cooking and shops all the time.
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i disagree ... technology may let a man feel that he's on top of the world! but he can't control everything-- technology can't control human relationships and most of all it can't control love.
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Technology.\n\nIronic that something that was created to quickly access knowledge in a convenient way has served to take away from learning as well.\n\nLet me explain....\n\nOur students have been experiencing ADD in higher numbers. One finding in research is that we have become a "push button" society. Children are "plugged in" and "unplugged" numerous times during a day. At one time it was the fault of a "remote control" of a tv that allowed people to surf through numerous channels looking for the right show to stimulate their needs. Now let's not only add the TV to the picture but include the internet. They may have four or five windows open jumping from email to answers to a game to chat site back to their homework. If one doesn't give them the stimuation needed they hop to another and to another. Click to this and back to that.......get bored.....move to next window.\n\nIn addition, students have lost the art of using books for research. They "google" or use wikipedia and rely on answers fed to them from sites that aren't always as reliable as documented print in books. Oh sure.....there are many wonderful sites out there too. Don't get me wrong. But it is not enough to just "google." Students really need to master researching skills and technology has enabled quick access but at a price of accuracy. \n\nWriting is suffering as well. Students are found writing papers in "chatonese." For example:\n\n"This book is the one 4 u! It is so hilarious that I was lol. J/K!" \n\nTeachers can teach writing in brilliant forms. However, if students continually chat on the net in chat speak, it becomes a habit that is hard to break in school.\n\nTechnology is a wonderful thing! But I fear that learning has become "easier" for children. Part of the learning process is taking responsibility for your learning rather than expecting an answer to be fed to you via the net. I'm very anxious about seeing where technology will progress positively in the class room.
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I dont think so.\n\nYa you have to take the internet technology into consideration and not internet persay.\n\nHow could we book our air tickets, how could we communicate with friends half way round the globe, how could we even dream of video phony?\n\nI dont think the present life can sustain without internet technology.
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Like most things, the internet gives us miraculas benefits and dangerous possibilities. With the growing energy crisis, we will see more people having the ability to work from home, but this could create a rise in depression and a decline in social skills.\n\nIt will be interesting to watch the development of computers and where the next generation of technology will take us. We will obviously see more voice activated computers, they will be used in more areas of the home, they will be faster, perhaps smaller. They will run most of the aspects of our home (security,entertainment, maintenance, communication). I'm sure there will be aspects we can't even imagine now. We are alreay using them in ways that were inconceivable as little as 12 or 15 years ago. \n\nWe live in interesting times.
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as technology go strong we become more irresponsible. you are right.
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What technology?\nBoth of what? benefit and exploitation?\nCould you ask again in the form of a question?\n-->
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New Technology is Great as well as Bad.\n\nWhen it comes to great, you can perform complex things very easily. There are entertainment and other stuff that can be easily achieved by the use of new emerging technologies.\n\nWhen it comes to the bad side, you get several privacy issues where a legitimate user is blackmailed by an ethical hacker and blackmailed. There are also crimes that start through technology. (e.g. Chatting).\n\nSo, it is us, who have to prioritize the technology according to our needs and gain the maximum benefit.\n\nBYE
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technology has great influece on the education system.\nchildren has access to knowledge...easier and faster... but this make students lazier...as in the case of plagiarism... it is undeniable that technology had make communication easier but it do increase the number of crime or more commonly known as cybercrime.....involving students and children\nbut i personally think that if technology is used in a good way....that is searching information, enchance communication...... in education then....it is good....
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I hate seeing the beauty of rural communities spoiled by technology.  I guess it is necessary, though.  If not, there would be no cable, poor phone service, bad water, old (if any) electric and gas supplied to the entire community, and possibly no cell and PC services.
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Yes it is. Interestingly enough, it is ALSO an effect of progress. technological progress.
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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!
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Agree somewhat...but with reservations:  The groups you cite, one would expect, are generally more aware of trends and tools that supposedly can make their lives easier or better (though much one sees on the Internet, for example, is silly, crazy, or just a plain old waste of time), and because of their income, they are more likely to try new gadgets and so on (not because they instantaneously see that it will be convenient, or whatever, but because if it turns out to be a waste of their time and money, they won't be as upset over it as someone who had to scrimp and save "forever").  The use of new technologies doesn't presuppose that their acceptance and use made the groups you cite successful in the first place.  (That often is just a matter of good old-fashioned values such as working hard, studying hard and not wasting what one earns---the wealthy are firm believers in these values and the concept of deferred gratification, thus they don't waste money when they shouldn't.)  \nI do think, though, that there's a somewhat silly tendency in some people to over-emphasize the importance of new technologies, and consequently they add to the misapplication of it and, consequently, to the resistance to its acceptance (use of it just to be using it just to show they can use it---if that sounds silly, then ask any teacher who has had to attend one unproductive technology inservice after another).  That is not to say that after the hubbub dies down that people don't play around with new applications, formats, and so on just to see if they can make use of it.  Fortunately or not, much of what people learn to do on the computer is self-taught.  Again using inservices as an example, no one wants to listen and try to follow someone else "explaining" something in a manner such as "click on this, then click on that then double-click this, then scroll to that, then copy this, then... and you're done," all rattled off in three seconds.\nI had to learn word processing that way simply because those who already knew it, would not take the time to explain it properly.  Yes, I agree that for a writer, especially, word processing is by far much better (faster and more convenient for editing as one writes) than using a typewriter!  But in the case of writing, it's more likely to be the quality of what one writes than the tools with which it was written that makes the writer a success.\nTechnology is just a tool.  You can use it to goof around with, or to do something serious and productive.  A good education (which would now definitely include technology) and the aforementioned values are the keys to success.  As far as the technology making you a sucess, look at it this way: If your boss says that such and such project should be done and presented only by computer and you do it entirely on a note pad, then you're not going to be very successful in that case.  You just have to follow what the current trends are and what those who pay your salary want.  \nLots of people learn computer skills, but do nothing with them (it's the doing nothing that impacts the degree of success).  I know computer engineers who are out of work, but won't build web pages to earn a living.  Likewise, I know people who know little about web design who have made lots of money from rather crude looking web sites.
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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 ?
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I think so.  I think most of modern technology brings stress along with its benefits.  After all, it used to be you could get away from the telephone, the television, and the stereo: now you carry them with you.  I check my email several times a day; if it was only snail mail, once a day would be enough.  Things change faster, and even the rate of change is accelerating.  Remember Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" book?  I'd like to get a copy of that now, to see how accurate his predictions were.  It is my impression that the reality is even scarier than the predictions that scared me so bad when I was in college!
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I am in the tech business. The biggest challenge I face is customers that won't register my advice or predictions and then become difficult and/or won't pay when they don't follow my advice or my predictions come true. Sniffing these types of customers out sometimes offends otherwise good customers.
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I work in IT and we support all the pc's, phones, printers etc.  Without us, companies would be at a standstill. Not to mention most users are pretty useless trying to do even the most mundane tasks! Secretary's that don't know how to use Word and Excel. People don't know how to clear printer jams,etc! It's amazing how tech limited some people are~A note to Bess, Rebooting clears a myriad of problems. More than you can imagine.  But it depends on the problem. We don't say that for EVERYTHING!