doyou think that the use of advanced technology in which we as humans depend greatly ontoday willcause change?

Question

By change, i mean further ways of adapting to our lives and lifestyles, which in turn could effect our appearance, motions and other ways of mobility.

Answer 1

Yup. We have moved away from being hunters and gathers, spending time outdoors in fresh air and sunshine, to living sheltered lives indoors typing away on keyboards and doing stupid un-natural passing time in this life calling it a career. Meanwhile, the sedantry states we achieve clogs our arteries and veins with fat until one day we are so unfit and unhealthy that we keel over and die. We have to earn a living so we keep on slogging away in our crappy jobs, missing out on the true essence of life. We are surrounded by cell modifying radiation, modified foods, preservatives, preservatives, chemicals, noise, the list goes on. We have become lazy because of 'advanced technology', more stressed out because of 'advanced technology'. One day we won't even have to speak, our thoughts will be detected by a sensor and converted into speech or text. We are regressing as a human race. We should be running around outside all day. Fatter. Slower. Less agile. We are using our brains less for everything. We are going backwards.

Answer 2

the only change advanced technology will make is climate change. The current parametres of engineering are completely skewed towards resource rich economics, where as we should learn to live in a less resource wasting way because the engineers are not thinking of the climate. Nobody owns the climate to say 'get out of my property', but some people certainly own mines and oil wells who want to make a maximum profit out of their land. This is the REAL problem.

Now to answer your question, the best invention in the world is the bicycle, it increases human mobility exponentially without actually causing climate change, it's made out of a small amount of materials (potentially renewable ones), and it's a great life style to have. I have a small bike that folds up and I take it everywhere with me, it's my lifestyle and I can recommend it to everyone living in a city with up to a 40 minute commute to work or leisure locations.

Technology certainly affects everything we do, but there are things technology doesn't change, that is our inner self, which are our needs, wants, emotions etc. They certainly interact with technologies, are expressed via technologies, but a car doesn't change a human is my point. We are just as human with or without one, and gladly not every human (yet) has a car, as otherwise we'd be boiling on this planet even more that we are already or choking with pollution that causes cancers which must be one of the worst ways to die prematurely, did you know that cancers are a very 'modern' phenomenon, pre-pollution societies had much less cancers.

So don't get carried away by technology, I'd be just as happy without airplanes (honestly), but I love the Internet so let's keep some aspects that still keep our planet in one piece, and scrap the others, the choices are up to our governments unfortunately as consumer choice is too sporadic of a way to influence the world.

Answer 3

Yes. Two things spring to mind: the next level is nanotechnology, with mechanical components so small that they can be incorporated into organic life. I think they'll use them in everything: constructing computers, medicine, marketing, agriculture, on and on. But they will also begin a process whereby conceivably our tools become part of us. A recent report described a technique whereby bone can be connected to an external mechanical device through the skin without infection. It's based on observation of deer antlers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5140090.stm

It's being developed for amputees, terrorism victims and war veterans, but it marks another level of incorporating our tools into our physical bodies.

Then there're genetics, stem cell research, cloning. There's a current discussion among experts who are trying to crack our lifespan limit -- if they can 'unlock' what makes us age genetically, we could live for hundreds of years. Obviously this would change absolutely everything.

Then there's the holy grail of cold fusion, which could open up space travel -- and all the weapons we're capable of inventing to destroy each other.

I think the effect of the technological revolution which began in the second half of the 20th century will be gradual. But if we were to jump 500 years forward, we would be very surprised at which parts of society were transformed and how we changed mentally and physically because of the work we're just beginning now.

Answer 4

No, i do not use social networking. i'm not a social human being by skill of nature, yet i do not imagine i'd besides... I try now to not spend a lot of time in the front of a show. I examine my e-mail regularily, I frequently bypass on Youtube (more often than not for music - i'm a guitarist) and occassionally I visit Yahoo solutions... I do little analyze on-line and that i by no skill use MSN messager like this style of large style of of my friends. lots of the folk i recognize who're round my age (15-16) spend about 4-6 hours each nighttime on facebook or msn. that is more often than not unnecessary chatter that couls in basic terms as well be executed at college the subsequent day, now to not instruct over the phone or easily face-to-face with the fellow outdoors of faculty. there is this style of project as being too linked socially. i do not see why someone desires to be carrying on a communication with their friends all day. To me it style of appears like an invasion of privateness and a huge waste of time. Having a social life is unquestionably a sturdy project - even if it shouldn't grow to be your purely life.

Answer 5

The mobile phone has already had an impact on the way we behave. I think many people just couldn't manage without the facility to make calls when and where they please and are probably making a great many unnecessary calls.
On a lighter note I have heard that the thumb is evolving as the dominant digit over the index finger due to texting.

Answer 6

Each piece of technology that comes on the market changes our lifestyle in so many ways either to enhance or hinder, i.e. the vacuum cleaner, the internet and mobile phones, electric light.
Think about it without them life would be harder and we'd still be in the dark ages!

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

Yes. The internet is so new...within the last decade and it will cause a dynamic shift of information from leaders of business to everyday man.

Answer 9

Definitely, everything going cyber. Almost anything you can do or buy in the Net.

Answer 10

It's obvious, we are already living proof of that! what will happen when it all fails and we are forced to go back to basics, are we able too?