Is our generation to tech dependent?

[jammi]

Right, ryoken, before you cite the Garbage Lady as a prime example of society being too technologically dependent, I just want to illustrate two things.

1) Selective reporting means only the very worst or most interesting things get reported. That means - for the most part - the 99.9999% of the population that doesn't deserve to be removed from the gene-pool with chlorine isn't mentioned. This gives the impression that whatever trait you're monitoring in the news is much more prevalent than it actually is. Further factor in that most news agencies are awful things, run by terrible people who purposefully attempt to mislead and/or sensationalise their stories; I'm look at you The Sun (UK) and ABFox (USA).

2) Greater media exposure and people having high quality media-capture devices on them at all times ensures that incidences of stupidity are more likely to be reported now than ever before. In the 60s, you'd need a special reason to have a camcorder, ensuring most random stuff wasn't caught. Now the majority of the population has a HD camcorder in their back pocket, in the form of a mobile. Retards beware, you're being watched, and will end up on YouTube. People have always been stupid. You're just seeing more of it now.

To be honest, people have asked these same questions throughout history, generally after a period of innovation. The Victorian period and the Industrial Revolution copped a fair bit of it, and led to the Luddite movement. That was people protesting about steam power, of all things. If anything, we need more technology. The less humans are involved in important things, the better.

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