It has brought us some comfort but I don't think it has brought us a more "positive" life. While we have dvds, cell phones and computers [yes I am using one] technology is not a "cure all" activity. We have more useless people in drugs. more depressive people, more violence and more stress. What do you think?
2007-07-06 10:54:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
More people on drugs compared to when? Compared to before the drugs were invented? LOL
What makes you think we have more depressive people?
What makes you think we have more violence?
More stress compared to when?
Ya know, "Dances with Wolves" doesn't necessarily reflect reality. Aboriginal society wasn't all roses and meadows and happiness. They had wars and disease and short lives and lots of suffering.
I sense you hate today's society, but I don't know why. I think your'e making a lot of assumptions.
If you want to improve today's society, that is admirable, but attacking society is not a good start.
2007-07-06 11:03:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically speaking, that's not the job of science. Science is simply a knowledge seeking method, and the best one humans have ever devised.
Nevertheless, it has brought us *more* life, in that someone living a couple of centuries ago was lucky to survive to his thirties or forties. It has enabled the design of machines that allow most of us not to be agricultural slaves or peons. It has allowed us to communicate better and faster—which makes us more aware of problems faster, which can be discouraging.
To be sure, technology can be abused. As Isaac Asimov put it in his excellent essay on your subject, "Best Foot Backward": "Every last technological advance, no matter how primitive, has brought with it something undesirable. The stone-tipped axe brought mankind more food—and made war more deadly. The use of fire gave mankind light, warmth, more and better food—and the possibility of arson and of burning at the stake. The development of speech made mankind human—and liars, one and all. But the choice between good and evil is man’s…"
(If you wish to read this essay, it was last published, I think, in _Asimov on Science: A Thirty Year Retrospective_. If you search Amazon.com or other on-line book stores for ISBN-10 number 1558175601 you'll find it.)
In short, science is just a tool for discovery. How it is used, or abused, has always been up to us.
2007-07-06 11:15:48 · answer #2 · answered by Retiarius 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have more people now days, and with our technology we can see more of the bad. I dont believe people have changed much from what they were. Science has done a lot more than just make DVDs and Cell phones though. How about all of the medical advances? How about landing on the surface of another planet with machines to study. We are definitely more enlightened than past civilizations.
2007-07-06 11:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you complaining about? Of course we have more useless people on drugs, more violence etc but thats not because of technology. You're also forgetting the fact that we have about 7 billion (i think) in the world right now, much more than before.
2007-07-06 11:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true that when we had fewer modern conveniences, most of our time was spent just surviving, people with flaws like a tendency to drug addiction didn't survive to reproduce, and violence was more limited because weapons were more primitive. Wouldn't want to go back to hauling water and hunting down squirrels to eat myself. Anything can have negative results, you just have to decide if the benefits are worth it or not. I vote yes whenever it's 100 degrees outside and I turn on my AC!
2007-07-06 11:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you stuck on consumer-use technology?
The term covers a much broader realm, including medical science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, etc.
There are also social sciences, such as political science, social science, economics, etc.
Broaden your horizons, because indulgent consumer tech is only the tiniest part of science, and the part used by the smallest number of people on the planet, and none of the plants, animals or rocks.
2007-07-06 11:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by nora22000 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that science has brought us some enlightenment but i also disagree. I'm 50-50 on this question. Science has brought us the luxuries of Cellphones.Computers.Cameras.etc. But if u think about it....It has also brought us pollution and Global Warming which is our falt but WE r the ones using SCIENCE. So science is good AND bad.
2007-07-06 11:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by yoooo 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
true enlightenment comes from within from what star wars calls the force,but science teaches us about how things work.it does not make us good or compassionate or love one another like enlightenment does
2007-07-06 11:00:37 · answer #8 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, no, some, little, none....
2007-07-06 10:57:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋