What's wrong with technology?

The masses have had technology marketed to them as a replacemnt for their brain and hard work and they now believe it.

An auto mobile is marketed to them as being incredibly safe because of all of the technology like anti lock brakes, air bags, etc. What the masses fail to realize is you have to learn how to drive and then those items will work. Unfortunately we don't teach people how to drive we just issue them drivers licenses and let them kill themselves and others and then cry out for more technology to fix the problem.

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence"
Robert Frost

nothing wrong with technology the problem is that people forget how to do what the machine , or software is doing for them they loose a grasp on what the machine is doing and how it works example who would know what to do with a choke on a car, ot a spark advance this is not limited to technology if you asked a hundered people randomly from a city street how to make a cake many would tell you , take a box of cake mix and pour it in a bowl add eggs and milk and stir, pour it in a cake pan and bake


not much differently than people who had servants to do things for them don't know how to do it for them selves

We use technology as a marketing gimmick to drive a consumerist society that generates an incredible amount of waste and pollutes the planet.

Conversely, we -- in the USA's dominant society in particular -- seem absolutely inured to using technology to mitigate our impacts.

I'd write more, but I have to go out and pick up the plastic bags in my pastures now. Maybe I'll use one to clear the ditch in front of my house of beer cans, old CDs, cigarette packs, disposable diapers, used condoms and discarded fast-food wrappers. After all, it has been 3 days since I did it last. I'm 10 miles from my small town. Just long enough for the final bites of McDonald's fries.

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Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

While overall it may be a benefit (reducing hunger and disease), I think it is clear that in certain areas we've gone too far. And I must say that I'm not hearing many discussions questioning any of it. When are young people asked to question the direction we're heading?

Yes, drive to work, sit in a cubicle staring at a screen, drive home while texting, grab dinner at the drive-thru, stare at a screen until bedtime. This is becoming the normal life.

I guess we have had a long time to establish social rules concerning other aspects of our lives, however, with the newer technologies the "rules" to keep in in check haven't necesarily been formed yet.