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Chronic7

Registered: 05/08/04
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Technology Taking Over Nature?
#7986131 - 02/06/08 10:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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We all know technology eventually goes wrong at some point as it is not pure, it is not infallible no matter how advanced.
So the question i got is once we let technology become integrated into our lives through genetics and robots, vehicles etc....(which is the way the world must go unless we go back to a primal society) what happens when technology goes wrong?
Will it try to save humanity form itself?
Will it destroy humanity and evolve?
I was just thinking as my mobile phone and ipod and car broke down all on the same day, whats gonna happen when it goes wrong on a big scale?
Maybe the reason we havent had contact form other forms of life is because they are so simple and aware they dont feel the need to travel into space, theyre aware they are where they are and make the best of it while it lasts.
So i guess this has tunred into a debate of whether we should keep advancing technologically or just accept everything as it is and evolve naturally on our planet, i find it a constant battle as i love the feeling natural pure lifeforce, totally aware. Yet i love the idea of the human race surviving long into the future through space travel aswell.
I know i rambled on but any thoughts?
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Edited by Chronic7 (02/06/08 10:18 AM)
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Querjek
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Re: Technology Taking Over Nature? [Re: Chronic7]
#7986212 - 02/06/08 10:59 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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chronic777 said: I was just thinking as my mobile phone and ipod and car broke down all on the same day, whats gonna happen when it goes wrong on a big scale?
I think this touches on an important issue--that comes off as if you couldn't live without the mobile phone or iPod (and I don't mean that to come off as me making a judgement of you, but it's something to consider). People, especially those of us who have been fortunate enough to grow up with the rise of the widespread use of computers, seem to sometimes take these things for granted, when they really have only been in practical existence (in our country, anyway) for the last ten or twenty years. And that's not very much time at all, in respect to the existence of humanity as a whole.
I can't remember the specific name of the group right now, but you may want to look into this thing... sorry I can't think of it at all, but in the last year or two a group of scientists got together/planned to get together to set some sort of "ethics" for the development of artificial intelligence and the future of technology, because so easily things could turn awry.
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DieCommie


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Re: Technology Taking Over Nature? [Re: Chronic7]
#7986512 - 02/06/08 12:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The difference between nature and technology exists only in our minds.
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Re: Technology Taking Over Nature? [Re: DieCommie]
#7987408 - 02/06/08 03:55 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think technology has already overtaken nature, starting with the industrial revolution and the birth of the consumer culture. modern people are really out of touch w/ it.
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