Comments on: Are we REALLY making any progress?

By: bob dylan

bob dylan — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:49:04 +0000

Use technology, don’t let it use you.

Personally, I won’t spend time with games, cell phones and TV it’s a distraction from my goals. I’d never use social networking or any noisy self-importance machine (iPod/cell phone/you name it). I make it a point to only engage in activities I deem productive. In short, I redefined what fun meant to me.

I like the internet for it’s useful information though, The social direction it’s taken, while probably right, has it’s cons (That’s another rant!). Ultimately garbage in, garbage out. If you intelligently choose your input, you’ll grow.

If I sound too serious, you’re not serious enough! This is do or die…literally I want to have a great life.

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By: penny

penny — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:19:45 +0000

As a research mathematician, I would trade all current advanced technology for
NO tetraethyl lead in the air of my childhood. And that lead –as particles is
still all over our environment. Worse, nowadays Mercury has replaced lead in paint for children’s room–as a “antifungal”. Mercury is worse than lead.

We ALL have brain damage, and that is a high price to pay!

If we do figure out how to use stem cells to fix this damage, and even increase intelligence and lifespan—- I would reverse this position.
Penny

By: Travis Jeffery

Travis Jeffery — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:40:38 +0000

This is one of the major themes and metaphors that Joseph Campbell was interested in when he watched Star Wars. If you understand the Hero Journey then you’ll notice how the story of Star Wars follows that pattern. How technology doesn’t solve problems and society’s difficulties it’s the people who wield choice.

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Fab 5 on Friday 03/30/07 - Spirituality Applied to Life - Balanced Life Center — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:02:37 +0000

[...] John asks, “Are we REALLY making any progress?” With all of our advances in technology, are we losing some of our ability to think, our instincts, our conscience? [...]

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:46:50 +0000

Humanity, because of our ability to create and communicate, has been in a constant state of change. As AB said, the evolution of the mind is accelerating. One day future generations will consider us primitives.

And what make us primitives? Our lack of technological advancements or our lack of humanity? I wonder how future generations will respond to disaster, tragedy and such… will it be like total ignorant (like most of people) or a ‘good person (humanity aboves all, money second)

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:30:46 +0000

That’s an interesting example, about the Indian college. I might better off if someone cut my internet off at 10 pm. I know I’d get more sleep and read more books.

By: Buz Dale

Buz Dale — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:25:25 +0000

Great post. Sometimes I find myself in the neoLuddite camp. I usually don’t stay there for long. I really love indoor plumbing.

I think sometimes we feel as if we aren’t making progress because we are constantly going through growing pains. Society is always catching up to new technology. It took years for reforms to work in the industrial age. Labor laws, environmental regulations, and other refinements took a while to catch up. We seeing this today. Cell phone usage is restricted while driving and in schools in some areas. A college in India has decided to shut down Internet access from 11:30 pm until 12:30 pm the next day as a way to get students to get students to attend classes, play sports and socialize – instead of sleeping after long night of gaming. Not sure I agree, but obviously the culture is trying to come to grips with the technology and its best use.

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:16:51 +0000

I’d agree that humanity is an anomaly in nature. Compare us to any other animal. They all have their own place in nature, and although they continue to evolve the process is very slow. They basically exist within their space without trying to dominate the rest of the ecosystem.

Humanity, because of our ability to create and communicate, has been in a constant state of change. As AB said, the evolution of the mind is accelerating. One day future generations will consider us primitives.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:05:24 +0000

Maybe this post is one of the excellent examples that technology isn’t just all-good things. Every lose have it’s own share of gain. Someone might get disease and as a return, he will know what he must do to prevent it from happening again and to be more disciplined in taking care of his own health.

No matter how much our invention we make, we will lose something as a return and global warming is clear example of what humans greed have caused to our nature.

Is it worth to call human as an anomaly to the nature? I think yes. What do you think think John (Wesley)