Since we have become such a technical society, are we missing out on the practical things?

Answer 1

Yes.

It has good points too, but we are missing out.

Rapidity is everything.

We will get to the stage where flowers can be planted electoronically, microchips instead of bulbs. "But its faster and foolproof," the technocrats will cry, failing to see that this is the problem. Without the touch of the earth at our fingers, the catahartic practicalities of "doing" rather than processing, we are losing a spiritual inner strength.

Dont get me wrong, there ARE benefits, but we should realise that we are losing sight of important things. I can send this message to you without really understanding how it gets there. I can bob something in the microwave, and its good to be able to eat it quick. But unless I actually chop, dice, garnish and fry the food myself, how do I actually know HOW it is hapenning?

Answer 2

Oh yes.

I find it scary that many people growing up today have no idea that peas come out of a pod or even that meat comes from an animal.

My wife is very practical, but works in an IT office. She always says that, come Armageddon, she'll be the one in a coconut bra, while the rest of them are trying to Google "How to Survive a Nuclear Holocaust".

Answer 3

The creation of an IT society was meant to make work more efficient in less time, studies have been completed that indicate we are still working the same number of hours and more in the U.S.

Answer 4

Oh yeah, technocrats are so boring and geeky. They can't do anything spontaneously or creatively or to the umpteenth accuracy. The practical people are fun to be around, and they are easy going. Everything they touch turns to gold.

Answer 5

Technology fills a need. When it doesn't it does not prevail. So in a sense, the market insures that technology itself, is a 'practical thing'.

Answer 6

absolutly