Is our generation to tech dependent?

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[SpaceTime]

Stop watching the news.

Yes and end up being an apolitical person who doesn't care of what is going on unless it immediately influences him/her.

Edit: Not that watching news is great, but it's better from nothing.

[Daedric]

Not anymore than past generations were dependent on the technology of their time. I wonder if there was a caveman movement that complained about the heavy use of stone tools in their society.

That isn't to say that I don't think that our technology level is hurting us in the evolution department. Take away our technology and ancient us would ripe modern us a new one. Our technology has made us a softer people and in some cases (many Walmart cashiers) rendered parts of our society unable to do basic skills.

Take spell check for example. I'm a horrid speller, but with Chrome's built in spell checker I don't need to know the exact spelling of a word. The browser can usually figure it out for me. I've heard kids in the schools I work in ask why they need to know how to spell when the computer does it for them. :sleep:

Technology is a doubled edge sword and it is currently cutting us both ways, one can only hope that the positive edge stays ahead of the negative edge.

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[ryoken]

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.

Ok i will not quote news, but hands on, or eyes on experience. I drive a truck for a living, see alot on the roads. I have even got a Cell phone jammer because of my experiences. Out of the last 10 accidents i have seen, 7 were caused by a person talking/texting/typing on a cell phone/pad. 1 was because a guy was busy with his GPS, and other 2 just stupidity.
I have knocked people down in the street because they to busy with phone/ipod/pad to notice me coming, and yes i am a bastard and will not move out of way for those not paying attention but brace for impact.
I have once seen a guy walk into a stret sign while Texting/typing.
I have seen a kid almost get hit by a car crossing a street not looking for traffic because of Texting.
I have seen a 9 year old to lazy to get up a change the channel on TV because bateries for remote was dead, and said it took to long.
I have witnessed a guy argue with a mechanic about missing parts in his car, because it was an older car, and did not have all the wires his wifes new car had.

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[AeternusDoleo]

The world is definately too tech dependent. A pity that solar storm missed us a few days back, it'd have been a nice wakeup call to have the GPS and telecom satellite infrastructure fried, combined with a global blackout...

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[Josey]

:ylove:The dog used to be man'€™s best friend (some cats disagree with this) '€“ now the computer is'€¦ sorry dogs.

Times have never been better (most parts of the world and space) thanks to tech in all its glorious facets. If it down comes to plaguing I can look up the technique on Google.

[SA_Scavenger]

Yes and end up being an apolitical person who doesn't care of what is going on unless it immediately influences him/her.

Edit: Not that watching news is great, but it's better from nothing.

There are far better places to get information from than the news at 7 PM. Just need to find those places yourself. When you have seen things with your own eyes and then watched the news and seen it reported 180 degrees away from what you saw, you will understand why the news media is a crock of poo.

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[Glis]

Most of the worlds population is, but there are some religious and whatnot types that still live in the horde type life with encampments and such..

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[Prysin]

its not so much the reliance as the ignorance of whats behind. Many people use modern technology, but their completely unaware of how it works beside "i push this button and it does this".

Unlike 50 years ago, we are now blinded by the design, we dont see the tool for what it is, namely a tool. But we see it as an object of specific usage.

Take the computer, ask any teenage girl or a adult man/woman in their late 50's. They wont even know what the difference between a harddrive and a cabinet is.

Coin mentioned earlier a long impressive list of things he can do, and you know what coin? Most of that is still taught to youngsters in the boy scouts, but most of us still take it for granted untill were in a situation that calls for it. This is why the stories about people who survived the unimaginable sound so amazing. While infact, all they did was going back to the basics, the fundamental basic of mankind... Sadly, there arent many left who possess those "instincts" as technology has made such knowledge redundant.

To answer the question, i do not believe that our generation is too tech dependent, but far too few people are aware that the technology is simply a tool, and that is DOES indeed have multiple usages. While i disagree that we are dependent of technology, i fully agree that we rely too heavily on it. While poweroutages come and go, disasters cripples the powergrid and war destroys infrastructure, we still manages to stay afloat. In the aftermath of such events we realize how different life is without these luxuries.

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[Dusty Lens]

I once saw a cave painting of a kid mauled by a tiger because he was too distracted by stacking one rock on top of another.

It's only gone downhill from there.

Wait, did you say you have a flipping phone jammer in your truck:D, on top of that potentially being the stupidest thing I've heard in the days of disco I can't help but get a kick out of it. Who are you, Jesus of the Luddites?

Anywho, balls to a long rambling post. The ability to retrieve information has surpassed the need to memorize vast sums of the same in our modern world. Tools have grown more sophisticated, grasp them firmly and delight in what you may learn. Spelling might be a good start. Or an investigation of irony.

The kind of irony found in working as a phone jamming truck driver ranting about technology on a video game Internet forum while eating pizza rolls heated by cosmic rays.