[safina]

Some of us are just riding on this bus called 'technology' but we don't really know it's destination.Some hardcore fundamentalists claim technology is contributing to downfall of humanity.I guess they see technology as 'anything electronic and scary'.But when you take time and think about it,a pen is nothing but technology.The brutal process of turning trees into white sheets of papers in Webuye Paper factory is nothing but technology.at some point a paper and a pen were new technologies,replacing scraping rocks with makaa.To me technology is Art and craft.Literally it makes work easier for humans,until humans are reduced to meaningless blobs of brain amid their empire of machinery and various wonders of technology.so as technology gets more and more advanced,human involvement in tasks gets less and less.Until when?.Will we continue until we render ourselves useless and taken over by our creations.why did we in the first place develope brains capable of such beauty and madness if it was all for naught.
What do you think..

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[safina]

what do you think

[Beenie_gal]

technology happens every single day!
n since pple started discovering and trying 2 make stuff, which woz like since the 16th-17th century, nothing has ever taken over 4 century'z l8r!!i dont think it will be any diffrent another 4 century'z 2 cm.
i dont mind technology i mean i luv my i-pod nano!now that's technology!


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[veritas]

I agree with you. I guess maybe that was our sin. Knowledge. Trying to create and utilise things like technology to comprehend our creator, the God almighty as the master crafter. When they say the more complicated technology becomes, the more prone to flaws which may mean "evil" (if you believe in such things) can slip through the cracks. An accumulation of such "evil slips" could eventually lead to the end of time. We have to remember the world is getting heavier by the day with knowledge, manmade endeavors and endless defeating, conquering of challenges. Yet, we have the same brain size, 5 fingers, 2 hands etc. like our ancestors. Therefore surely there must be a limit oneday whereby things will get out of hand which may indeed lead to the end.

[mugash]

to the grave if u ask me. let me tell u my friends i may sound ol fashioned n out-dated by some peeps lakini as fast as this shyyyt iis improvin s as fast as it will come to a close.. i can see all this technolgy crashin on us sooner or later or earth might jus negatively react to these endeavours. u never kno n one question when earth was created, was it created to accustom this technological factors that man is focussing on creatin...????

[Msoto]

I'm in a technological field...and yes it has uplifted somewhat our perceptions of what good life is. However we strive so much to accessorize and integrate this or that...that we arent really living.
We are more rushing to get the latest craze...have a cell-phone...have a home theatre system...have an ipod..etc
To an extent technology is becoming a way to divide humanity from those that have access to those that dont. And in most cases technology is linked with money another divisor of humanity. The more we become technologically crazed the less REAL social interaction we have....instead we are immersed in a virtual world.

We may feel at first that this is how we should leave...however the virtual worlds, chat-rooms, instant messenging all fall short of real contact with each other. For instance you may try and work hard and probably with some success...but you cannt say that if someone offers you an emoticon hug via instant messenger when you are bereaved its better or more empathetic than someone giving you a real hug.

There is so much more that happens with face to face contact...the non verbal cues...cannt really be picked up via instant messenger. I personally feel more alive when sharing my success and failures with someone real rather than a T1 connection with someone with a high quality web camera.

I feel saddened when i go back to africa and see how people are crazed to implement technology into their daily life. How has cell-phones uplifted the lives of many a kenyan? They have resulted in less ques on the phone booth that would have meant for interaction with real people. They have resulted in less visitations from family and friends. Well people decide i can as well call you instead of going all the way...we can talk on the phone and thats that...life continues...the technological cuffs strengthening on our wrists, feet, neck...yes...they may be sparkling...and we may be dazzed by looking at them...and the perception in which they put us in....prevents us from seeing the reality. We are suffocating ourselves.

With increase in technology...there are higher rates of depression, insomnia, suicide, paranoia, irritability, apathy, anger, frustration.
And then we seek medication to aid our problems...or alcohol..or caffeine...to give us a boost. We convince ourselves with a few studies that we are ok....we are ok...because we do our work...however do we really smile...are we really content?

No life becomes a chore because of technology....and with it unending bureacracy and red tape.