The world has changed.....inventions like ipods, computers, etc.(electronics)?

Question

Since like the 1800s, the world has changed so much...the telephone, computer, playstation, gamecube, playstation2&3, ipod, mix stick, wii.....it is just so amazing. What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

It just seems like things have changed a lot. Surely we are very technologically advanced and we can predict the future and we can save more lives...but the way i see it , every generation is in awe. In the 1800's i believe that people were amazed that industry was booming, railroads and steamships were created, and more cities emerged. In the 1600's they were amazed by horsepower, building materials, gov't and clothing, and medicine.

The world today, i like to take steps back to look at the BIg picture: I find it incredible that hosptials have the knowledge to cure deadly diseases, and fight cancer. The television also is a good invention, everyone now can see whats going on around the world at the touch of a button, You can also get storm warnings. However i do not agree that video games/or music players have helped society. Surely it is a form of entertainment. But it has brought so much violence it scared the living sh*t out of me. 7 year olds killing people on the screen, 10 year olds going into a battle, 13 year olds with machine guns....The list can go on. People dont realize What HARM video games bring. It also brings obesity and eye problems.

Sorry so long, but i hope i made a good answer for you lol

Answer 2

I think that the techonology that has come about has been helpful and in some cases hurtful.
IPods encourage people to go and get exercise- running or walking isn't as boring as it used to be- now that music is portable. It's also not necessary to carry around huge CD players, which is another plus.
The telephone has helped because if someone needs help or needs to communicate with someone far away, it is possible.
As for the playstation and other game systems- it is a source of entertainment, but can cause people to be anti- social and to not get enough exercise. People seem to link playing video games to being one of the main causes of obesity, but it all depends on moderation. It would lose the bad name if people didn't get too carried away and played games all day.
But computers have been a very helpful innovation. It is now possible to look up information for school projects and some supercomputers are able to help scientists make huge calculations.
The only problem is that people are so desperate for some of the game systems and even iPods, that they are willing to steal or rob others or stores.

Answer 3

This topic has been discussed before and their are books on it. Many people take strict only Pro or Con to technology.

You're right, the world has changed. People have not. Our technology has improved in the last 100 years. Technology that was once big and primitive can now be used in small mediums and useful daily.

I would like point out one soft spot in tech: the automobile hasn't improved much. We are still using combustible engines, the same basic designs as in the Model-T. Yeah... great innovations from 10 MPG Model-T to the recent Prius of 60MPG. 1908 to 1997 tech that barely improved.

If Personal Computers used the same time scale, we would still be using P1s or nothing at all.

Answer 4

It's better, yet worse.

Better because science has introduced all these new inventions that have greatly improved travel times, industry and health. Yet worse because some of these same inventions have ended lives, shortened lives and caused havoc that would have been unheard of in the 19th century.

So it's a case of whether the cost is worth the benefit or not. Are our health improvements worth the ones wrought by smog and other damaging toxins? Is our happiness worth the health problems of lack of exercise that we will endup with later in life?

It's all a question of opinion. Do we live in the present and ruin the future, or do we live for the future and "ruin" our present?

Answer 5

i think we dont need it but it makes the money go around. i wonder what people would do if all the cell phones deactivated, wouldnt that be hilarious. kind of like when a cell tower goes out and the retail stores are packed with people only to find out there is nothing anyone can do, hilarious. did you know ipods can cause hearing problems? i love the computer but i only use it for personal use not business so i wouldnt care if anything happened to it, it is a major resource for information tho. video game systems are a must, they keep kids off the streets.

Answer 6

The 1800s sucked without the ipod or playstation

Answer 7

My dad once said the greatest invention in his lifetime was the electric drill, God bless him. I had a Grandma who came to Cowtown Denver and started teaching at 16 years old. She told me stories about the milk carts and Ice carts who plied their trade around Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood. In her lifetime there were wars and peace, TV, stereo and they even landed on the moon. Who could have thought these things could happen. I worked briefly at IBM when a computer was a huge room filled with what they termed computers and my first electric guitar was powered by a record player amp with the stylus taped to the top of my acoustic guitar. I pack a cell phone now days and drive a handicapped van that can push 140mph and I've flown on jets high in the sky to places you could never imagine. I wonder what changes in the world you will see and experience and for what?

Answer 8

It really has. It makes the world a way funner place. But it's very weird. Sometimes I think about living like the people in The Village or something, you know? I don't like living so dependently on technology.. It feels a little fake like I'm too isolated from nature. Maybe I'll go live on Walden Pond. Ha ha, just kidding.

Answer 9

My thoughts are that the fundamental question is whether people are better off than they were in the mid 1800's. If you don't consider the effect of essentially eliminating childhood death from disease, life expectancies are not that much greater. Are most people generally happier than their counterparts of 150 years ago? My sense is that the human condition for the American Middle Class is not much better than it was.

Answer 10

Its cool. Its made our lives more convenient interesting and fun. But the con is that ppl's health is declining. Instead of outside picnicking, we are inside playing video games and surfing the net. We are getting lazier and have started depending on others instead of ourselves.