When man made so many machineries, it was to reduce his work-load and save time spent on doing a hard day’s work. And today, have yu noticed, man still has no time with all his inventions and machineries. He now works 10-12hrs a day, spends lesser time with family and friends when compared to older generation, is scared about his life(due to illness or other anti-socials) and almost forgets to live.
When was the last you simply visited yur relative living in the country side and went with just a set of cloths yu are wearing?
When did yu spend time without a mobile fone or internet?
Then what good all these inventions do to mankind, I wonder?
2007-08-13 01:28:08 · 11 answers · asked by 13 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
So Polly, yu agree with me that all these machineries made no man's life better?
2007-08-13 01:40:37 · update #1
Good suggestion Mr.Nobdy...
I used 2 mobiles fones at a time and now very rarely use even the 1 I have. In the begining, I felt suffocated and nervous without mobiles. Now I am happy and at peace without it.
I have turned to books, Reader'd Digest being my fav.
2007-08-13 02:15:48 · update #2
You are absolutely right. But we have control over which pieces of technology we choose to use and that will simplify (not complicate) our personal lives. Just because it exists doesn't mean we have to have it or use it. I do not own a cell phone for that reason (laugh if you will, most people do). When I'm out, I'm out. I have things to do (or am enjoying life - which I make plenty of time for). Technology will only complicate your life if you allow it to. I give my job 7 hours a day (enough for full benefits and a paycheck) and the rest of the time is mine (which I spend with my children, family members, friends, pets and myself). I'm not the richest person in the world but I'm rich in other ways -- I'm happy!
2007-08-13 03:42:40 · answer #1 · answered by Shug 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agreed with this... mankinds have started inventing all this gadges that they have forgotten what their real mean was... we got so into it that we forgot how to really communicate with real people, or how the woderful feeling of receiving a letter was, it's really a piy.
to tell the truth, everytime I go out just to spend a night, I would have to pack more things than I really need, and sometimes, I just wonder why I do it!
And about the mobile phone and internet, when I was smaller, I didn't consider it to be as important as now, however, nowadays, it's as if I can't live without them, they became part of my life! thinking of it sometimes, it's scary, they are taking over my life!
2007-08-13 02:13:36 · answer #2 · answered by Xinita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, too, agree. The world is clicking away faster and faster than it ever has before but we STILL find reason to stay at work and away from family and relaxation more today than we did when our grandparents were young and active in the workforce. What is wrong with this picture.
All we did was create a way to work more efficiently for longer periods of time. The O' Mighty Dollar wins again.
Sandy :O)
2007-08-13 02:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do share your viewpoint.
I've wondered this for a long time and also I've wonder why we don't do anything about it!
Years ago I read in a newspaper about a small town in the US whose people decided to have a day without TV. First it seemed a hell of time, but at the end of the day they decided to repeat the event. Why? because they had lots of fun together; family members, neighbors, friends,etc. They cooked together, they played together, talked ,etc. Even some old and forgotten games were revived.
So why don't we do it together? I do it myself sometimes,but when others are stuck to their TV sets and computers, it is of no use.
Lets start a campaign in Yahoo Answers: a No computers Day!
What do you think pals?
2007-08-13 01:55:57 · answer #4 · answered by I'm nobody! 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
External circumstances, like devices, are just like simpler tools. It all depends on what you do with them.
Some people use a cell phone, for example, as a leash, others use it to free themselves from worry about not knowing what is going on.
If you were in a cave 28,000 years ago, you might be pounding flint to make a crude scraper, or using wisdom and available materials to paint the walls at Lascaux.
2007-08-13 02:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't agree more with you...... it is THE question I have been asking all and sundry and no one seems to be as concerned as I feel about it. We must do something about it.
All our so-called advancement is coming at the cost of the real quality of life and the worst part is that we are deluding ourselves to believing that in fact we are improving our quality of life.
The painful truth is that our materialistic and individualistic approach to life has made us a slave of quantity and we have gone to the extent of defining quality with the help of quantity...... it is good quality if it does not fail more than 5% of the time!!
Further, we are doing a lot to save time.... in the process we are forgetting what we really wanted to do with all the time saved... so we are spending time in order to save time leaving us no time saved in the bargain...... this is the greatest folly as you have rightly pointed out. As one of the answerers has stated, we are doing everything faster and faster.... but the net result is not positive.... on the contrary, this is only developing a short term approach in everything we do.
We badly and urgently need to wake up and realize that a short-term and quantity approach to life is the sure way of killing the quality of life... this is the kind of approach that less than human beings with inadequate intelligence take to life and we believe we are the most advanced being on earth!! I have been wondering whether we are on the road of 'devolution' (I mean opposite of evolution).
2007-08-13 02:22:32 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People have always had to go to extraordinary means to survive. You do our ancestors an injustice by belittling their stresses. At least nowadays these stresses are optional. Quit you job get rid of your cell phone your computer and your TV or keep them, but go be a ski bum scrub toilets by night and ski by day. Your stress will be minimal. You chose the level of stress you have in your life and you want it or you wouldn’t have it.
2007-08-13 03:53:34 · answer #7 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
A valid point. Life is certainly faster, more demanding, more stressful and more hectic than it was even ten years ago. Because of the quickness and efficiency of computers and machines, everyone wants everything 'yesterday'.
Polly
2007-08-13 01:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by pollyanna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They made the quest for the meaning of life much harder.
2007-08-13 05:17:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every solution is a new problem buddy
2007-08-13 02:16:46 · answer #10 · answered by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋