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Lector V
Oh, I read this post wrong at first, when I saw "has technology advanced us" I took it as "has technology surpassed us", which is another interesting question...
Back at hand, however, I would say that technology has advanced our knowledge and ability to communicate; not only do we have the capacity to communicate with someone we've never met in a place we've never heard of in countries we may never go to, but for people like Steven Hawking, we now have the ability to understand the single most intelligent person on earth whereas otherwise we'd have never heard of a man who is paralysed with Parkinson's. Then there's the Hubble Space telescope, and the images, data and cold-hard knowledge that we have gotten from that one object alone.
Are we more "evolved" because of technology? If anything I;d say that we're devolved, since now people have an inability to simply exist without supermarkets or running water, and should anything happen to that technology many people would die through a lack of ability to fend for themselves. We have a certain amount of ignorance now, an irony that we have all the information that we could possible want at our fingertips, and yet have been infected with apathy and heartlessness. As technology increases there seems to be an inverse relation to the amount that people care for one another, which probably results from the fact that we can all learn about the terrors of abject poverty, even genocide, without having to see it in front of us. The shher data of images that bombard us constantly have desensitized our emotions while making us think that we understand what hunger or pain feels like simply because we can see what it looks like, and it's not the same. Plus constantly looking at incandescent, phosphorous images has ruined our eyesight so that less than a third of people actually have 20/20 eyesight without the assistance of glasses or contacts.
Technology has advanced our ability to learn, it has advanced our ability to feed by better agricultural techniques and biologically modified crops to battle hunger. It has goven us the knowledge of the universe and the capacity to understand the dangers of extra-terrestrial bodies, from asteroids to meteors, and possibly the ability to defend ourselves from them, when just 100 years ago such an object could have destroyed an entire area without anyone knowing it, as illustrated by the Tuskaluska forest in Russia. But it unfortunately hasn't goven us the ability to cope with such advances so that we can live in harmony with one another with such technology, and it shouldn't, as that is something that we must give ourselves. Unfortunately it seems like with technology, we have lost that self-help ability, and so still don't know quite what to do with what we find ourselves having.
Technology has advanced us, but at the same time we seem to have brought ourselves down.
Has technology advanced us?
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), and to generally make things less of a hassle... No, it hasn't advanced us at all.
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