Technology..is it good or bad?
By ikinta
@ikinta (1236)
Indonesia
January 3, 2007 1:23pm CST
Do you think that the world would be better if we had not known technology,nuclear and such?I think it gives us much benefits yet create more problems to solve.
6 responses
@sanjivbiswas (334)
• India
28 Jan 07
any technology is good when it serves the society as a whole,but out here only rich and strong(politicians)use it to
wage wars.so i think it brings social inequality in such a structure.
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@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
9 Jan 07
technology is an abstract which as such cannot be either "good" or "bad" the applications of the technological advancements that are discovered can be good, bad, evil, or even wrong. But learning to split the atom and things like the human genome project have resulted in some amazing advancements.
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@imranwajid (741)
• Germany
7 Jan 07
Technology is always good. But the problem is that everything has positive and negative uses and the politicians of this world use the technology negatively which hurts.
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@asfi123 (951)
• India
14 Jan 07
The difference in a persons attitude towards technology is dependent on that persons exposure to it rather than the notion that it is age that determines positivity/negativity.
On the somewhat pessimistic side are certain philosophers like Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Ellul, and John Zerzan, who believe that technological societies are inherently flawed a priori. They suggest that the result of such a society is to become evermore technological at the cost of freedom and psychological health (and probably physical health in general, as pollution from technological products is dispersed).
Perhaps the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics
On the other hand, the optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of views or ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, that view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition. In these ideologies, technological development is morally good. Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism or techno-utopianism and fear the idea of technological singularity which they support.
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@Shibabrat (14)
• India
8 Jan 07
Technology is definitely good for the mankind, but using it in destroctive way is bad....You never know the future ,but till now it is a great server to all the man kind
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