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Teachers and Students => Debates => Topic started by: Angel Of Love on May 02, 2010, 05:08:10 pm
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here is something really important..
We nowadays can't live without the technology everywhere we are surrounded by technology somewhere it is good and somewhere bad what do you think about it...??
Is it good or is it bad or awesome or worst... :)
I mean to say does it help us or not....??
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Today's technology is good, but used in a bad way.
I'll elaborate on the above comment.
50 years ago if you wanted to send a letter to a friend abroad, you used snail mail and it took like a month to arrive. Now, with email, the letter arrives in seconds.
But .. with email you also get:
- SPAM
- Viruses
- Pedophiles harassing young children
- Threats
- Rumors
Why? Because it's so fast and easy to do so!
100 years ago you sent messengers on horse back to deliver messages to people, now with SMS, mobiles, and the internet, you can go on web cam or video call so easily.
But .. with these we also get:
- perverted people who roam these websites
- explicit images being shown on web cam
50 years ago, you painted a nice image, now we capture the image using top notch cameras in seconds!
cameras are being used by paparazzi that don't respect privacy, again perverts, etc.
I can go on and on, the technology is great, but we have to use it right, and I'm sure most of us here at the forums do so! ;)
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:o :o :o dat was awesome i agree to your first statement.." Today's technology is good, but used in a bad way"(that's a strong point).:)
but technology is not just cell phone, internet, etc.It is computers, printers, cars, etc..I mean these are some things that which are rarely misused i am not saying that these can not be misused but generally they aren't in fact these are improved to be used nicely..
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Technology is always good. Common, nothing is 100% cons free! :P
It enables us to do so many things. It has allowed us students from all over the world to form the SF Community. It allows me to send letters in the form of emails. It allows me to download things over the internet. It allows us to send emails advertising people about products. It allows us to shop online. It allows disabled people to access facilities which would otherwise be difficult for them... And many more to come in the future... ;)
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Excellent! I mean technology of today is awesome!
depends on how we use it. we need them now. It is said that Necessity is the mother of invention!
If they are for your convenience then why using it in excess or in a wrong way!
Go and follow the rules of everything.. everything will look nice and good!
Nice topic chosen, By the way ;)
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Same as when Man first discovered fire, and burnt himself with it.
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But he ultimately discovered it and its many uses now in the modern world! ::)
If he hadn't taken the risk, we would live in stone age now. ::)
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Are we really better?
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Ofc its good and stuff but what i want more important to say, is that it doesn't make a diff. If u were aalive a hundred years ago, u wouldn't know about these things so u wouldn't be sad about smth u have never seen. Also like today we have games (and we say how can people sit around in the desert in the past without doin anythings) well guess what, they also had their own games that they loved. Today we are happy with the technology we have, just like people in the past were, and this is why we are not sad about the things we don't have but will exist in the future :P I know u didnt get the last part ^^ It means that we aren't sad about the future's technology cuz we haven't experienced it. So people in the past aren't sad about today's technology because they haven't seen it too :P (sad means sad that they dont have :D)
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We ARE better! :P
Just think of our progress due to technology. Its endless!
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Ofc its good and stuff but what i want more important to say, is that it doesn't make a diff. If u were aalive a hundred years ago, u wouldn't know about these things so u wouldn't be sad about smth u have never seen. Also like today we have games (and we say how can people sit around in the desert in the past without doin anythings) well guess what, they also had their own games that they loved. Today we are happy with the technology we have, just like people in the past were, and this is why we are not sad about the things we don't have but will exist in the future :P I know u didnt get the last part ^^ It means that we aren't sad about the future's technology cuz we haven't experienced it. So people in the past aren't sad about today's technology because they haven't seen it too :P (sad means sad that they dont have :D)
Very well said. :)
We ARE better! :P
Just think of our progress due to technology. Its endless!
LOL, the harm as well is ENDLESS! :D
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I don't see any harm. Just good! :P
You gotta weight the benefits and harms of anything. For technology, the benefits FAR outweigh the harms!
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I think there is a problem with your scale... :)
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I think there is a problem with your scale... :)
LOL :D
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I think there is a problem with your scale... :)
Hehe, NO! ::) :P
I think you don't use much technology in real life or have no idea of how they can be used... :) :P
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I think there is a problem with your scale... :)
When we consider technology, imagine the progress we have made in medicine. One hundred years ago people DIED because of simple Pneumonia.
With antibiotics we can cure/treat so many new bacterial disease; all thanks to Alexander Fleming.
If technology has the ability (and it does) to save the life of one human being; then it is truly a gift and very much worth it.
Hence, it is not the scale that needs to be aligned. It is your view on the matter that needs to be adjusted. :)
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Ohk, here's my viewpoint.
Technology is a widely used term. It could mean a lot many things, from computers to cars or something as simple as a gas stove, refrigerator, Air conditioner and so on.
I believe machines make our work simple. And as rightly mentioned by Ash, necessity is the mother of all inventions. I stress on the word "necessity"... Today, we want things, we don't really need them.
Now considering computers and internet, etc. Excellent stuff. Much useful and highly appreciated by me. It has its disadvantages. Hackers harm, Stranger stalk and we fiddle while Rome burns. We are ignorant. A lot of things aren't safe. The better side of it, we can interact with people. I like the forum...we have social networking sites. We may go on to make excellent friends. Video conferencing possible, online shopping, banking, etc. possible. Overall, it's a great way to entertain and demystify yourself. Knowledge is abundant here.
Now moving on to engineering marvels. Very innovative and impressive. I love the way people think. Creativity scores points. But we are well known to misuse the power bestowed on us humans.
Cars,robots,satellites,simple machines, very useful to humans, but with some damage done to the environment. The production costs are high +pollution is a social cost (something to be concerned about)
Progress in other fields, like agriculture,medicine, etc. is great. We save a lot of lives. But we sacrifice many to discover something that'll save the rest(which is greater in no so i am not against it) + I have high regards for people who voluntarily experiment on things for the benefit of others. Agriculture has improved, better seeds, new machines, etc has helped farmers a lot. But yet we see farmers committing suicide every other day. Nature plays an important role in determining what is to happen. Although, technology helps, there are other factors involved.
Technology is helpful, but it must be used wisely
That's all for now
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OMG, did the posts become so long... :)
I'm in no mood to write long... Nor is the clock helping me. ;) Will reply later.
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Woaahh! i've written a lot :o :P
take your time :)
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LOL, yeah! And strangely though... Everybody is directing their arrows to me... :)
By the way, love your new sig:
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost...
The way to care for your Mother Earth is to realize technology might destroy it... ;)
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Thank you :)
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LOL, yeah! And strangely though... Everybody is directing their arrows to me... :)
By the way, love your new sig:
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost...
The way to care for your Mother Earth is to realize technology might destroy it... ;)
OK. Go back to the stone age then! :P
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OK. Go back to the stone age then! :P
What a comeback! :P :P jk :P
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OK. Go back to the stone age then! :P
I'll drag you all with me first. :P
Thank you :)
:)
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I'll drag you all with me first. :P
Uh, uh, We all prefer technology! Have no desire to go back! ;D :P
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Uh, uh, We all prefer technology! Have no desire to go back! ;D :P
Who's asking? ::) You don't ask people before you drag them, I think. :D
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Who's asking? ::) You don't ask people before you drag them, I think. :D
But you've already asked that here now! :D :P
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The way to care for your Mother Earth is to realize technology might destroy it... ;)
Off topic but heres something to make you all think.
Human beings do not easily fit the classification of animals. You see most animals attain some sort of equilibrium - harmony - with the natural environment.
Humans simply use up the resources of the area they colonise and then move on to the next place to ravage.
However, this characteristic is idiosyncratic of another organism - viruses. In effect we are the scourge of mother earth.
BEFORE YOU JUMP ON ME - This is a paraphrase from the movie Matrix when that Agent is interrogating Morpheus. I just wanted to include it here and sound cool 8)