Do you think technology will eventually destroy us?

Question

I mean us as in destroy the human soul, belief, religion, and faith, as well as weaponry.
We have so much now, artificial insimination, cloning, new aircrafts are created, now cities are built, flying cars. Soon reguvanation, reanimation of a body, hibernation, robots, artificial inteligence. All these bafle the Bible or any sort of belief for that matter. Humans can become like machines, cyborgs.
Will these things, and many others, eventually destroy us?

Answer 1

No.

Human compassion can be found regardless of where you look. Honestly, it's compassion you're defining and looking for when you say 'the human soul.'

I am certain that our ancestors from the past would have wondered the same thing if they could have had a glimpse of the world we live in today. But, we know human compassion is alive and well in this high tech world of ours.

In fact, with the growth of technology, we humans are able to be even more compassionate than in the past. Things like disasters and atrocities can be broadcast to the world in a matter of minutes now, and help can be on the way immediately. The entire planet can come together to help those in need.

I think the development of technology will give the world even more ways to help those in need and also make the world a better place overall. Things like safer pesticides and genetically-enhanced crops are already making more safe food available to the world than ever before. The technologies to make drinking water safe are making a huge difference in many parts of the world. There are far fewer human rights being abused and less slavery than ever before. This is due to technology- from the cameras recording it to the global communitie's united stand against it to the internet's ability to see real-time video from anywhere in the world.

Science is truly making life better for countless people here on earth, and as long as research is able to continue, more outlets for the human compassion you seek will be found.

Science has already provided cures for the planet's worst diseases, like polio and smallpox. Vaccines are routinely given to babies in all developed nations. There's plenty of 'soul' in this science...and it wasn't like any church came up with the solution or the investment required to develop it.

Once the development of nanoscience and stem cell research provides cures for the rest of the planet's worst diseases, it will be the compassion of good people all over that will make these cures available to developing nations.

There is plenty of genuine goodness in the world- you just have to look a little bit past the negativity to see it.

Answer 2

Although I work in the IT field, I have to say that I think technology - or rather, the improper use of it because of greed and apathy - has already destroyed us, it's just taking a little while for us to realize it. I say this because I think that global warming is very real, and I think it is going to have drastic effects much sooner than is claimed by the government. In fact, I read something on a science page recently that stated that the words of the draft completed by the IPCC (Inter-governmental panel on climate change) had to be toned down, as "they" were afraid it would alarm people too much. Let's face it : people got rich by grabbing up the rights to natural resources, and selling them to all of us (at a huge profit). What's worse is that when scientists figured out what was happening to the atmosphere - which happened almost 40 years ago - they told the politicians and industry leaders. But guess what? MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO SOME PEOPLE THAN THE TRUTH. And, unfortunately, most of those people are RUNNING THIS COUNTRY. Do any of us believe that some middle class person from Anytown USA could get elected president? No - not now, not ever. And what's worse is that the people who were genuinely concerned about what was happening were derided as "tree hugging liberals" and written off by both the politicians and the mainstream media. And what noone has told you is that the greenhouse gasses that are now wreaking havoc in the atmosphere are those released some 30 years ago, so the worst is yet to come. It's takes a long time for them to rise all the way thru the atmosphere to the point where they start actually affecting anything. I'm not trying to be a doom and gloomer, I just think people should know "what's REALLY goin' on!" If you think I'm full of it, do some research of your own. Oh yeah - and buy a boat!

Answer 3

Technology is what makes us human. As Jerry Pournelle say, "Man without tools is a dead naked ape."

Privation, Hunger, Disease and Ignorance are good conditions for the growth of Big Religion, but the spirit itself whithers and dies.

Technology frees us to be more human. It's not a coincidence that in periods of rapid technological progress, the Arts and Sciences flourished and political systems moved toward Freedom.

So, if technology does destroy us, it'll be through War or Stupidity on the part of world Leadership. Barring that, the added health and extra time it gives us can only lead to a growth in the human spirit.

There are already cyborgs among us. People with pacemakers, hearing aids, insulin pumps, dentures, artificial limbs, etc. They seem to be as human as anyone else and more human than they would have been without those devices to help them.

Answer 4

It is quite likely that such a possibility can quite occur... But considering Heisenbergs' Principle of Uncertainty in life, nothing can be predicted quite accurately because there is always a hidden factor at work. But I quite have to agree to the common view that Technology will be the end of mankind, because in return to get something from nature, we have to give something back, and if we borrow something to the extent that we cannot return it, there is no hope for mankind... The fact is that we feel that being able to think and read and write and socialise, we are more capable of surviving and escaping any dangers. Though true, there is still a downside to it, as we can think... And anything that can think and apply it, without realising its complete effects, are in danger of unknowingly endangering themselves..... Every race has to come to an end, as we have noticed in nature.... The more complex the race, the lesser is its life span in the race for existence... As we have seen, the cockrach has been living since long past, whereas the dinosaur became extinct.. Also, I believe that the saying CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT applies here... We are in the constant search for answers, the questions to which, we have not yet realised properly... It is imperative that we realise our mistakes, which are non-existent in ature, and correct them... Only then can we prolong the span of our species.... But in the end, the human race has to come to an end... Because that is the Law of Nature....

Answer 5

I believe that The human has gone way too far into technology discovering and science. ( people will hate me for that, but it's ok..) Exactly as you said cloning, genetic modification, nuclear energy, atomic bombs, space conquest, biochemical weapons and more... I can't see what is so great in these, they making discoveries taht will kill us all in the end. Because everything has gone kind of out of control. Humanity has never gone so fast into discoveries in centuries, and curiously we get the worse catastrophies ever since... Why is that ? When will eyes and minds open to this ?

Answer 6

Henry David Thoreau said that men have become the tools of their tools. I agree with that.

I think technology is already destroying us. Look at what humanity is doing to our environment for the sake of industrial growth. We have become slaves to industrial growth, and technology is just the next step in industry. While technology keeps increasing its presence, humans are becoming less happy.

Answer 7

No, but I think it will take a few civilizations and hundreds of years before man will manage technology.

Might destroy life and belief for awhile as we know it today, but this too will fall under the truth factor and come out being a blessing instead of damnation.

Answer 8

yes cuz the more things we build it destroies another so one the all things will be gone n the human race will one day but gone as for material things. if machines ever become like cyborgs i would rob a gun store n start killing then hopfully i go to a good place when i pass on

Answer 9

Quite possibly.

Overall though I believe its a double edged sword.

Answer 10

Nope, simply because they'll never get any of those things 100% right.