Technology Good or Bad?

[Variable Rush]

I'm sitting here cruising the 'net on my brother's computer, listening to Charlie McCoy on the record player (ancient, but good), washing dishes via a dish washer, and washing and drying clothes in similar machines. I'm keeping my house 80 degrees by using an Air conditioner, I can call my friends with a phone even though they can be thousands of miles away.

Is this good? Is this dependance on machines going to one day be human kind's downfall? The other day the power went off in the North for several hours. People panicked, people had sex in elevators, it was pandemonium. But, if you think about it, we've survived without electricity for thousands of years. Only in the past 150 years has power been a part of our lives. Is it possible to be too dependant on it?

If the world ceased to have electricity making things, would you just go live in the shed with your keg of Spam? Or try to remember the plot to The Road Warrior?

[Woffester]

As far as I'm concerned, technology isn't a problem, as long as people have patience when it doesn't work. Complaining about your computer being shitty makes me angry. Even the shittiest computer out today let you do more than any computer out 5 or 6 years ago. Cars, we wouldn't REALLY need them if we got rid of them all at once. I was without any sort of motorized transportation this summer, so I just walked and rode my bike....It was wonderful! I love manual labor. I actually saw a Nazi propaganda film today, and it showed 52,000 Nazi servicemen with shovels, trying to show the power of manual labor over other methods. I thought that was really awesome (Even though Nazis are of course, evil). But yeah, treat technology as a luxury, because that's what it is, make sure you know what to do if it fails.

[World of Ruin]

Oh they remember the roots alright, and always will. It will just take time to get used to actually doing what you know and remember if there were ever a crisis. But as I saw in the first episode of Futurama, technology is inevitable, even if aliens shoot down your cities twice. It would be pretty weird to have all but one male and one female die. All these names would be different and stuff. What language would people speak? Only one language?

So, if it is inevitable, it must not be good or bad...it just is.

The human brain is known for its neurons' seemingly infinite connection possibilities which would keep piecing and piecing and always lead up to some huge puzzle eventually being solved.

Hello. Did I say this right?

[dilbert627]

Good. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[Hthe8th]

Its good but people shouldn't take it for granted/know how to get on without it

[Moguta]

It's all so horribly evil. Can't you see? Machines are eating the earth alive. Know what it feels like to have metal & rock & coal extracted from you? Because THAT is pain the Earth knows very well.

I advocate a return to using just our own appendages for everything, no technological assistance like rocks & twigs. Think of Mother Earth.

[hillarygayle]

Good. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Or, if your Borg has a virus, it's:

Refutile is sistance. Your ass will be simulated. ^_~

[Variable Rush]

NO! Not my bloody arse! God save the queen!!

[Henry Jones]

Good: I can be 350 miles away from where I'm employed and still send in articles.

Bad: I'm surrounded by people on the internet who say stuff like, "t3cHn010gY R th@ gr8T!"

[Lucky]

GOOD GIRL, YES! BAD GIRL, NO!

[Nólaquen]

The movie Contact has one of my favorite allegories related to how technology affects our lives and whether we're really better off with it.

Personally, as someone who spends most of his time dealing with technology, I couldn't imagine living without it. On the other hand...sometimes I wish a hundred nuclear bombs would detonate and destroy everything and force us to re-evaluate our priorities.

[Mustin]

If that really happened, it'd probably be the only thing that could happen that would actually get me on a horse.

I'd get what I needed (read: priorities), and start heading North...

[Variable Rush]

Onward! To Canada!!