Do You Agree That Technology Has Stunning & More Negative Effects Than Positive?

I've come to the decision that I am not as big a fan of technology as I was before. I am constantly becoming aware of how technology can destroy us first bodily and then later our earth. I think that while it does have it's advantages it's slowly make us a dumber society. If we can learn to not use technology as much maybe we won't be so lazy. The only benefit I See of computer is to make money and have fun, but even that is costing us money and ecology.

No I don't think so. The negatives are always splashed over the "news" in almost every thing. No matter what technology we have there will always be good and bad. At least it keeps the "tech police" jobs. Many advances in many different areas of science and medicine are a result of technology. The negative is reported more often because it "sells". The United States went to the moon with the technology of a child's toy now. Look back hundreds of years and see what Da Vinci thought of. Technology made many things possible. There will always be rogues who's goal is to destroy things but, hopefully, we will be able to overcome them.

I think that like everything else, it's important to use technology wisely. If we use it to avoid all effort, that's bad. For example, I really would rather have my lawnmower rather than an old manual push mower but I draw the line at getting a mower that I can ride on. I don't have a dishwasher and thought about getting one but it only takes a few minutes to do my dishes-I live alone-and I can justify the expense or the taking away of a chore that gives me a little exercise. Technology is wonderful as long as we use it wisely and don't let it replace all our physical labor. I don't think you'll ever stop terrorists or sickos from using it to their advantage but they'll use anything that furthers their agendas.

Technology is not the problem. It is the people who are using the technology that are the problem. Science is a tool, and is only as good as the people who use it. Every technological advancement there is has at least two uses: The use it was intended for, and the use that mainstream consumers create for it. Bank accounts being hacked isn't so much a problem with the bank's technology, it's because criminals are getting smarter. Depression isn't created by technology and neither is cancer. Both have been around since long before electricity was even discovered. Technology doesn't increase pollution - people who aren't careful about how to dispose of waste create pollution. Food processors and dish washers do not cause obesity - laziness does. Technology does not discriminate between criminals and non-criminals, and unfortunately criminals are getting smarter while the rest of us are getting lazy. It is the minds of the people who use technology that need to change; but without technological advances, we would still be cavemen beating each other over the head with rocks and skinning animals to make tents and clothes. Yes there are a lot of destructive uses for technology and a lot of ways that not being careful with it can hurt us, but saying that technology itself is bad is inaccurate at best.

Hi Ganesh44, You are right in so many ways, yes technology is giving out a lot of negative effects but really its not the technolgy its people who are misusing them, if we don't have technology in the first place we won't know half the things we know and alos it goes hand in hand with science, like when electric was invented and we had lights, when we didn't have tv we didn't half the world existed, so tencnology is good but its the misused of it that is wrong. Tamara

Certainly technology has a dark side as well as bright side, but you know you just can't get the cat back in the bag once it's out. Man needs to mature along with his knowledge or we may very well destroy ourselves.

There are some truth to your statement but there are also positive effects.

Doctors can do surgery remotely, I can find a great deal of information, and it is right at my fingertips. I can talk to people almost anywhere in the world...provided they have the technology and are free to use it. We can run simulations of different scenarios...which is safer than trying to actually run them. I assume you are anti-technology. And don't use a tv or a computer (opps I guess I am wrong here) and if you go to the doctor, you don't get MRIs or Cat-scan or even blood tests.

that is how some people are. if they get there hands on something they use it in bad things. technology is a great breakthrough but is also has negative points specially if you use it for a negative purpose. it has serve for busy people to do anything and everything on the net withput a buzz, like banking and paying bills. as you said food processors and dish washers causing obesity for they no longer exerts energy, you just have to dump the food in the processor or dump the plates in the washer then it will do anything for you already. it is contructive but we all have to use it in more appropriate way

now, don't blame food processors and dishwashers on obesity, that is caused by the easy availablity to obtain cheap food and too many people eating a poor diet ANYTHING to lighten the burden in running the house is a weight of the oppresion of women

Dear friend, I do hope as human has bad and good side as humans there are bad and good people. The technology too have bad and good side, the good people use for positive side and the bad people use for negative side. But I hope there is majority of good people so that we all are alive as the negative side of technology is too dangerous are not yet used. Like the nuclear bombs.

it has positive and negative effects. just about everything in life has its drawbacks.

I think that technology has allot of good in it I don't use it for my banking or I think some people might over do it but there allot that don't. cd

dude.. without this so called technology, you wouldn't be posting something like this here.. ..... but you do have some valid arguments, i will give you that.... ever since we have become tech savy and got caught up in the fast lane, we don't find enough time to reflect on our deeds and actions and has let the technology change us at a pace from where there is no turning back..

I think it could be good if we use it in moderation,but people has to go over broad.That is what causes problems. It is the way mankind uses it,or what they use it for.It can be a trap,but we need to use technology and the olds together.

Archibald MacLeish once quoted: “Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.” I do not think that the advancement in sciences and technologies are meant to harm or cause any grieve to human mankind in the first place. On the contrary, it is being created to enhance convenience, health, optimum usage of scarce resources, environment friendliness, self sufficiency, shortening the distances, communications, a new way of life and most of all an all rounded lifestyle. Yet, there will always be another side to a coin where certain quarters will use these technologies otherwise like creating havoc, self gratification, dominance, tyranny and mass destruction and devastation. So, if these advancements are applied morally and moderately then there will be improvements and enhancements around us and our life. Choose it otherwise is always a possibility and it is karmic. Cheers.

Hi Ganesh~I know that what you are thinking might be ever so right, but in reality I am hoping that you are ever so wrong! Technology can be such a wonderful thing if it is used in right way! But, unfortunately it is usually used for the wrong purposes! It should be used for the good like in modern medicine! But, using it for Nuclear technology, that is so wrong! We need technology to find the cures for serious diseases like cancer and so many other diseases, but we find that sometimes it's use backfires on us instead! If only we could be able to control it's use and use it for only the good things! We must pray that this will be the way of the future!

Remember older days when human used to live in forests. Then we were as vulnerable as these days, with no protection and all. Then we came into some kingdome kind of time then villages used to be wiped out of colera! We were never safe and just because all the surveys are running, we came to know that with mobile phones such and such disease catches us. Can you tell me how many times people do exercise or do yoga in those surves. I bet no one of them. These surveys suck. Second comes Nuclear technologies and supersonic missiles. So, this is in our hands, whether we want it for good reasons or bad reasons. Nuclear energy could be used for creating another energy source with oil wells becoming empty soon. There is a saying that every coin has two sides, what matters is that what side we want and what side we watch! Thanks for the quality discussion.

i dont think its more destructive .Its just what how you use it. As every coin has two sides,everything has its good as well as bad sides i mean advantages and disadvantages.Its upon us how we use it for good cause or for ......... God has given us brain so try to use it for good purpose then im sure that we wiil find only good things rather than ........ have a nice day

Hello my friend Ganesh44 Ji, You are absolutely right. I am with you. But this has to come to awareness of all peace loving societies. May God bless you and have a great time.