Convince me that technology is good.

How far do you want to roll things back? Tell you what, I'll handle my stress about always having email avaliable, you handle your stress about what you'll have to eat this winter. Have fun with that.

Does more efficiency equal more happiness? Of course not. But it can help.

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A crude charcoal sketch of your peenis sent by courier would not garner the same response.

Originally Posted by Threak

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A crude charcoal sketch of your peenis sent by courier would not garner the same response.

A crude charcoal sketch of my penis is all the world could handle. It's just not ready for the real thing.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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My point is that if the entire paradigm shifted to one without advanced electronics, we would be better off. Or at least not worse off.
I don't think so. Technology has provided huge efficiencies and brought down the cost of just about everything That said, I agree with your general sentiment. Peru made a huge impression on me when I was down there. Few people had computers and the internet. Some went to internet cafes but it didn't occupy a major part of their lives. The center of town was always bustling with people, and they all seemed very happy, despite having few material possessions. It was a meeting place for people. Couples young and old would congregate there. You would regularly run in to neighbors and friends and go back to someone's house for a late night coffee or drink. I basically decided then and there that i'd retire to South America. The rest of the world is replacing human contact with facebook. That said, Globe is right, they do envy us our toys (well the younger generation anyway), but I think on the whole they enjoy life more as they are (the ones that have stable employment anyway). Overall, tech and progress come with benefits and disadvantages alike.

I enjoy drinking my coffee from a cup rather than lapping it up from a puddle on the ground. Plus with the cup I can drink and scan the horizon for predators all at the same time.

without cups, there wouldn't be 2 girls. ill let you decide if that was a good thing or not.

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I don't think so. Technology has provided huge efficiencies and brought down the cost of just about everything

That said, I agree with your general sentiment. Peru made a huge impression on me when I was down there. Few people had computers and the internet. Some went to internet cafes but it didn't occupy a major part of their lives. The center of town was always bustling with people, and they all seemed very happy, despite having few material possessions. It was a meeting place for people. Couples young and old would congregate there. You would regularly run in to neighbors and friends and go back to someone's house for a late night coffee or drink. I basically decided then and there that i'd retire to South America. The rest of the world is replacing human contact with facebook.

That said, Globe is right, they do envy us our toys (well the younger generation anyway), but I think on the whole they enjoy life more as they are (the ones that have stable employment anyway).

Overall, tech and progress come with benefits and disadvantages alike.

You get me, bro. I don't see why today is so much "better" than the pre-tv age. When people would hang out with each other in person, not on the internet, and when work was manual or active. I totally respect the advances in medicine that have happened and I appreciate them. But the tech stuff - no, I think it has made life worse.

- metro and CHerry

no tech no igents!

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You get me, bro. I don't see why today is so much "better" than the pre-tv age. When people would hang out with each other in person, not on the internet, and when work was manual or active. I totally respect the advances in medicine that have happened and I appreciate them. But the tech stuff - no, I think it has made life worse.
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I don't use facebook because it is a leech. But i do use SF and watch tv for an hour or two a day.

Because with virtually everything readily available to you all at once, you are forced to reassess what is important to you. And judging by your estimated browsing habits, your values mostly consist of pornography and material nonsense. Way to waste both your life and limitless information potential.

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Because with virtually everything readily available to you all at once, you are forced to reassess what is important to you. And judging by your estimated browsing habits, your values mostly consist of pornography and material nonsense. Way to waste both your life and limitless information potential.

You are:

a) a frustrated intellectual
b) probably information-obsessed

What exactly makes you think that information is intrinsically good? I don't see what is so much better about being the most learned man in the world as opposed to someone just chillin' with friends and family in Peru and working as a merchant or craftsman. Enlighten me.

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You are:

a) a frustrated intellectual
b) probably information-obsessed

What exactly makes you think that information is intrinsically good? I don't see what is so much better about being the most learned man in the world as opposed to someone just chillin' with friends and family in Peru and working as a merchant or craftsman. Enlighten me.

Hell if I know, I was just jerkin your chain