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Are we too dependent on technology?

We're not too dependent on technology, we're too dependent on technologies we can do nothing about and that require production, resources and maintenance we cannot normally hope to do ourselves.

Add a few unwilling specialists, an unplacable hierarchy at work and the whims of the market economy and realize how screwed we all are for using pc-s for our administration.
 
It makes modern life great, but it's fragile and we can't survive without it. Recipe for disaster if you ask me.
 
CGHJ said:
It makes modern life great, but it's fragile and we can't survive without it. Recipe for disaster if you ask me.
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We can. It's just that we've allowed to to replace perfectly workable systems for something far more error-prone.
 
nope don't think we are too dependent at all.
 
Yes.

The work world is one example. The utter failure of language skills is #2.

Socially, #3. Witness the meltdown of the Vegas JUB meetup. A year of planning and nobody wanted to get together, except behind a computer monitor.

It is really sad.
 
I dunno about WE but I am too dependent
 
Technology, especially in Communications, has been a horrible invention.

Communicating face to face, even with your next door neighbor, has become a lost art.

One of the things I miss about my little old town in Michigan is all of our houses have FRONT porches. On warm summer evenings, everyone leaves their hot, stuffy homes (nobody has A/C) and we sit on our front porches. Everyone knows everyone else. I can name everyone within a two block radius of my house.

A few years back, I was dog sitting my Mom's dog. Took her out for a walk, and Smokey decided to poop in the Mayor's front yard. Applause erupted from SEVeral neighbors! I was prepared to pick it up but my neighbor/friends convinced me to leave it as a Political statement. You don't seem to get that very much anymore.

Because I've been gone for the last year or more, and the house is shut down, my neighbors are taking care of the yard and the flowers. I've sent them checks to pay for it, and they have sent them back!

Here in Colorado, I have no idea the name of the old lady that lives two doors North. There are new people across the alley that haven't said ONE WORD to me since they moved in nine months ago. What a fracturing of societal norms.

Yep, we are way, way to dependent on Technology.
 
Yes, yes we are. I type faster than I write, I email more than I talk and I SMS when I don't get a response to my email...

...thank heaven for iphones.
 
yeah, I tried to do half of a review session for a class of 350+ students on power point (mostly for practice problems), but the projector was locked work after hours. It was a bitch, but I wrote it all out on the black board, which was actually better for the students because it slowed me down enough for them to copy everything down.
 
braex27 said:
Yes, yes we are. I type faster than I write, I email more than I talk and I SMS when I don't get a response to my email...

...thank heaven for iphones.
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Yeah, in college there are more and more students who take notes on their laptops (for the whole hour, not just jimmy jacking on facebook) and record the audio of the lecture (if it's not already pod casted), and even take pics of the black bord with their digital cameras because they can't copy everything down fast enoug.
 
Piggy said:
Yep! ;)

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7045521

A week ago, my school district got hit by a nasty computer virus. Every teacher computer has been infected.

No one can input grades, attendance, checkout library books, or plan lessons.

I was in a meeting this past Friday. They had to write everything by hand, instead of typing it in the computer.
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IMO, YES but I don't see it as a bad thing as long as we don't reach to unhealthy level. (What I mean by unhealthy is, choosing SMS/IM over socializing(trust me these people do exist. I've seen them), using vehicle for walking distance...the list goes on.) I mean you have your work done efficiently and your productivity is enhanced by this. This is by far outweigh the ordeal you have to go through because of virus. Just imagine, if all those certification exams choose human examiners over computers, test takers probably have to wait a month or two to get their results. And besides, even if your school successfully substitute computers with papers, they still be at risk such as fire or even dog:mrgreen:.

As a side note, your school could protect it from happening again. Well..at least to some extent. Good image software and backup practice would do the trick. Everything will be up and running again in no time.
 
Piggy said:
A week ago, my school district got hit by a nasty computer virus. Every teacher computer has been infected.
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This wouldn't have happened with MacOS or Linux.
 
I don't think that we, as a society, are too dependent on technology. The thing is, all society is dependent on technology and always has been: without technology, society wouldn't exist. We'd be dependent instead on the much more capricious temperament of Dame Nature, and nothing would ever get done.

The thing is, we're at the dawn of a new age, and epochal transitions never run smoothly. We live in a time when half the people alive remember what life was like before computers, and the other half wasn't alive when there weren't computers. And so those of us who remember doing math in our heads and learning penmanship and talking to neighbors in person instead of on FaceBook are baffled that the new generations never learn to do that at all.

That said, I think it is folly to allow ourselves, individually, to be too dependent on technology... and I'm not just talking about electronics, I mean every technology from the wheel onward. I'm not a fan of survivalist training, but I am glad that I know some basic Boy Scout nature skills... makes me worry less about the complete meltdown of society if I know how to build a fire and where to find a banana slug for my lunch.
 
I don't know how I could ever sustain my need for porn without technology.
 
As much as we're too dependent on electricity, running water, gasoline, etc. When technology fails it's always a hassle but that just shows how useful and beneficial it is. I wouldn't say we're too dependent on it. We are still able to function without it, it's just a real pain in the ass to be forced too.
 
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