do technology threaten or damage the quality of life?
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There is no wrong answer to this question as it is too vague.\n\nAnd you should use the word "does" not "do"
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Oh my!  The computer and the Internet have totally revolutionized my life!!\n\nI actually have a social life now, online, which before I did not, because I am homebound and often bedridden.  There is an entire world at my fingertips.  A library, the worlds largest shopping mall, all the friends a person could want, information for every need, I have a life now!!\n\nI know that many tens of thousands and more of people like me feel totally liberated by the internet.  Also, I love to read, but my vision is too poor to read most books, but if they are in digital format, I can increase the light and fontsize to where I can read it comfortably, and dont have to hold a book or turn pages.\n\nAnd on top of it all, I met my hubby online, can keep in contact with my kids and grandkids and parents, all of whom live in another country.\n\nIt's been an awesome thing in my life.
315260
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 ?
8962
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!
553256
Sure they are and they will make more advances. There's the MRI, CAT Scan, PET, EEG, etc... without computers hospitals and any health care facilities will be disabled. So much depends on computers that life itselt cannot work without it.
239919
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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I think people are more carefree in the virtual world - because the others cannot really touch them and if something goes wrong you can just vanish without  a trace. If there is conflict, instead of resolving it, you can just ignore it by switching off the computer. I sometimes wish that real-life relationships were like that... *smile*
52608
Technology is in everything and everywhere now. By misusing the technology, there can be nuclear blasts, the electricity can be stopped, the water level of dams can be changed and whatever the technology we consume can be stopped (robbed) by misusing it.
575495
Both.\nThe World as a Village \n  \nBefore we ask "what is technology doing to us," we must first ask "who has \naccess to technology at all?" \n\nIf we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with \nall existing ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: there would \nbe 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and \nSouth), and 8 Africans. \n\n   * 70 would be unable to read. \n   * 50 would suffer from malnutrition \n   * One would be near death; one near birth. \n   * Only one would have a college education \n   * No one would own a computer. \n   * 51 would be female, 49 would be male. \n   * 70 would be non-white; 30 white. \n   * 70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian. \n   * One half of the world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people, \n     and all 6 would be citizens of the United States. \n   * 80 would live in substandard housing. \n\nIf the digital revolution really is having an impact on the psychological \nmakeup of the people that it affects, then we must remember that it only \naffects an infinite small fraction of the world's human beings.
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Why is there high technology in the first place? \n---> Because of human dissatisfaction. You can hardly find a human who is satisfied living in the same style he is now and 20 years later. There are bound to be discontenment in some areas. This is why our world keep on changing and improving. \n\nIf there's constant dissatisfaction, do u think there will be world peace? We are not living in a fairy tale world. Even if there's peace, it will not be for eternally. Because eternal peace will ultimately results in resentment and dissatisfaction among human.
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no - do we have problems? certainly, but we've always had problems.  so we go about solving them and other problems crop up over time. but we have the freedom and the rights to allow us to address our problems. we have the best medical treatment, the most robust economy, one of the best education systems, the highest level of personal comfort and wealth.  we still have poor people, under educated people, unemployed people, people with inadequate medical treatment.  we're trying to do something about all these problems but some solutions have to be local not global.  for instance, there's no law that will make a parent support, guide and help a child practice reading and writing at home instead of playing video games.
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My observations point to a diminishing social response and continual alienation from community interaction. Not withstanding basic social inter-action seems to be the important basis for adolescent understanding and interpretation between right and wrong. The generational conflicts are easily recognized by members of each groups participants and problem solving solutions become a commmunity responsibility. Whereas technology usually doesn't require either community response nor action to become effective.
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With every new technology comes good and bad.\n\nFor instance, I'm a trainer for a living, so having mobile technology such as a laptop with wireless and remote access is great for my job, but I'm always at work now. Even my RDO's are spent putting out spot fires before they become raging inferno's to deal with on my return.\n\nHowever that being said, they probably wouldn't be raging inferno's, it's just a perception oh no something to do, deal with it. \n\nThat being said, Imagine if you had to fax all your letters, or send via snail mail. Data transfer and communication is a great asset that has been bought to us by technology. \n\nWe can send an email off and mark it as waiting on someone else on our to do lists instantly. \n\nWe can prepare macros and programs to remove mundane and pointless repetitive labour from our lives. Mail merges mean one letter, one list of names and addresses, two clicks, and bang, merged and printed.\n\nDepending on the Job technology can be a nuisance, handy, or an outright neccessity as some industries have grown to depend heavily on it.\n\nThe greatest benefit by far of computers is Databases.\n\nYou can either file your clients in a filing cabinet, search for them, add to them, re-file them. Or you can build a database, build a front end for that database, and once down, that time and money pays for itself, as repetitive and manual mundane filing is dead.\n\nI've worked with databases with millions and millions of entries, and I could not even imagine manually filing such an incredible amount of hard copy information.\n\nThe one neccessity for implementing technology as such, is a disaster recovery plan. You MUST be able to recover from a crash before becoming dependant on technology.
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Blessing.  Certainly there are problems to solve, but those problems will be solved by further technology, not by banning what we already have.  \n\nIt would be possible to provide a long list of the benefits of technology in the modern world, but I will cite a single example:  modern communication technology allows me, a complete stranger, to answer your question.  We never had anything in the past like the information tool we have now in the internet.  No matter how good a library one had available, it would still take a lot of time and know-how to research every question.  Now, it's all here at your fingertips.\n\nAsk any modern physician how many of his patients would have been worse off ten years ago, let alone fifty.  Ask any research scientist what has happened in his field as a result of modern technology.  The world does not stand still, and we cannot make it do so.\n\nRemember, nothing is an unmixed blessing.  Certainly the internet brings its own problems, but so did the technology of the crossbow!
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Yes, mankind has become far too dependent on technology, if we lost all of our technology tomorrow, I am convinced that only myself and few friends I know have the skills to survive without what we take for granted today. For me, computers are fun, like this answering stuff, but I sure don't base my life on it...its a dangerously fragile world we live in. Mankind survived far longer without all of the crap we have today, but most of have lost the basic survival skills that used to come naturally to us.
655103
Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
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life for sure will be different...\nit would really seem like the world is a really big place...\nwhich is contradicting of having computer...\nwherein we can now tell...\nit's a small world afterall...\n\n=)