Anyone feel this way?

[escapingsummer]

I am sure this has popped up in a post before but here I go. Anyone feel that we are moving into a Brave New World Society faster than we should be? Or that over reliance on technology has handicapped us as potential thinkers and scholars? I've people watched and have seen stupidity and a lack in common knowledge that I am becoming rather fearful

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[kscreation]

The way I see it, we can do in this race for power through knowledge for a long time. It is getting faster at the greater technology, but it's been this way for a long time and in many cultures. The Egyptians, Romans, they now us. But there's something else that I noticed. We seem to also have a growing curiosity in the (for lack of a better word) spiritual. Not spiritual as in structured religion, but spiritual as in a search for real meaning and a desire to move towards. Eventually we will come to the end of what we can do with technology and will either grow or destroy ourselves. I personally think we have to find a balance point, a place where the technological person and the spiritual person become one. If we don't find this balance, I don't feel we will ever meet our full potential.

Ken

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[amethyst2010]

I am a politically minded (mostly vote dem, as they in an election year seem 2B on the right track)tree-acknowledger (not hugger)Mom, work in health care, Pagan, Witch (not those who call witchcraft religious..as it is not). i am of the breed, deal with it as it comes. energy is always moving, always changing.I like the way U think and write, so I am bookmarking this page

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[escapingsummer]

Thanks? I'm not sure if you were complimenting me personally or just everyone involved in the discussion. Anyway, I just feel that we cannot have a completely stable society and we can't have a completely forward bounding society. Morals, ethics, etc. must be able to catch up to where technology is taking you and in some cases it doesn't. I mean for instance think of music downloads on the internet. I do it, I am guilty before anyone accuses me of anything, or argues with me, this is to prove a point. Think of it, this piece of technology (your computer and a p2p sharing client) allows you to steal something that if you were caught in a store would be arrested for. The difference is you can steal comfortably in your home office. But does the fact you ARE able to steal change the ethics involved? If you could use a technology to steal food from your favourite grocery store would you?

[unbelonging_to]

Everything at our fingertips makes humankind unwilling to stretch its arm. People travel less because they can watch the other side of the world on webcam. We can accquire music while nearly anywhere and listen to it constantly. This bothers me especially, about music.

It's been proven that when a word is repeated to us, it begins to lose meaning. It has also been proven that we cannot listen to one thing and do something unrelated at the same time, both requiring concious effort. The most popular music today... rwad the lyrics. They are mostly either cliche, awful, or both. This bit worries me, it does. Musical appreciation will never die, but I'm not liking it.

I don't worry so much about the emergence of technology (though I am concerned about the dependance) as much as I am about the fear and avoidance of FEELING.

[frostwulf]

I'm more worried about the carnivorous robots they're developing. I think Cracked did an article about this too, and pointed out that if we save all of our memories on computers it could really fuck up our lives whenever we lose our flash drives.