Why advancing technology will destroy the lives we lead

I'm pretty convinced these smart phones that know where you are at all times is suspicious, and I certainly don't want someone to know where I am at all times (not that I do anything suspicious, Im just private)...but think about it....now these smart t.vs, these smart t.vs, oh my goodness...we're inviting big brother to stomp right into our living rooms and watch our every move so if the government becomes corrupt we
ll be unable to rebel even in peaceful protest.
I don't have a smart phone, I dont even have a current Ipod. I have an Ipod classic 5th generation used Ipod with music I barely change so theres no internet coming in or out and no tracking.
Soon technology will paralyze the masses free will and then when everyone is too engrossed in its shimmering glory I think the government will send out radio waves that control a portion of the brain so they can eventually categorize us, put is in internment camps, and eventually genocide will be the result while the powerful, rich, and influential will run off free to continue their new world order.

 

I'm currently sending music from my iPhone to my entertainment system wirelessly through Bluetooth. And I think that's awesome.

Also, I don't think you understand what a smart TV is. They don't do anything that home computers haven't been doing for the past ten years.

 

??? if ?????

 

I consider computers to be pretty dangerous...Im on one now, but I think its a fun with alot of risk.

 

Quit being so paranoid, you're not making anything better or easier

 

He's making it easier for the corrupt government...

 

lol, fine...maybe some of it is just being paranoid but anythings possible...

 

then don't buy a smart phone.

 

I agree with Drew.I've gone as far as I want to go with technology.I just want to go back a bit and learn some useful basic skills.Smart phones and all that jazz don't really impress me.I'd much rather learn about how the first mirrors were made or how to blow glass.

 

http://truththeory.com/2012/01/12/10-modern-methods-of-mind-control/

 

the advancing of technology changes games certainly. this is not always a good or a bad thing. it can be either and it can be neither. what matters is the incentives for what direction it evolves in. and THAT, like so many other things, is motivated by the incentives all of us together statistically create.

there are also, social and cultural factors, perhaps too many of them, or more so the wrong ones, which do not seem to evolve with or in recognition, of its liberating potential.

 

Pfff old iPods, what do they hold like 4 albums.

 

I think that's a bit silly, been watching too many scifis?

One of my favorite universes for this topic of future technology is that if futurama. Please look it up if you don't know about, it's about a young adult who gets cryogenically gets frozen from the 2k New Years to the year 3,000. One of the funniest messages is, no matter how advance technology is, we always deal with the same humanitarian issues. Scams, stupidity, social classes, relationships, love.

My favorite part of the show is how it shows a misperception of people looking from the year 3,000 to look at the year 2,000 and kind of compare that to our perception of a thousand years ago.

Technology has always existed in some form, and it always will. From something as primitive as a hammer or screwdriver, look how much they have shaped the word! The government can only really do too much, there is such thing as revolution you know. It may be a possibility, but that legend old tale has been around for ages. I don't trust the government with my money, but it's a bit different to not trust them with your life

 

I can't afford all that new smart tech, so I try to convince myself it is out to get me.

In reality it's sour grapes.

 

The machines will take over and enslave humanity like in the matrix

 

Drones. We're learning to make computers that can think, surveillance, hunt, stalk, and kill. I never believe in holding back science, and I support the advance of technology, but not this strange, scary new direction.

 

We're talking about the soon extinction of the human race.

There is a huge difference between science and technology. Science is the understand of natural laws and finding ways how we can improve our relatioship with the natural universe. (Which ultimately leads to a higher and less stressful standard of living.)

But technology is the domination and subjucation of natural science for the goals and agendas of an elite few. This perversion of science is most often done for reasons of war and the concentration of power and/or wealth.

Technology has a symbiotic relationship with corporate power, gouvernement and the military. (ie: The establishement)

For example:

The Internet is facilitating the greatest centralization of unregulated corporate power in history.

It is also the greatest tool of propoganda ever created; one where the person being brainwashed by the propoganda is an active participant in their own brainwashing.
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I'm sorry for the technology and gadget addict but the truth is that technology does not equal progress.

 

^ I like your post, but I disagree

Technology is the product of progress.

My theory, social classes will always exist, some can manipulate enough to lead, some can be manipulated enough to follow, and some can't be manipulated to do either. Corruption exists in nature, science proves it, I like how you said science is seeking the laws of nature though, very clever

 

Iphones are not the product of progress.
They're the product of corporate greed and human lazyness.

Anything that does NOT help solve our problems of starvation, war, education, enviromental damage, suffering and help us live in harmony with each other and nature is not progress..... **** It's perversion. ****

Perhaps the single largest lie of technology is the way it creates a problem than points to itself as the solution. When the solution is simply to stop doing and using what created the problem in the first place.

Again most people look at their Igadget and think to themselves, "Oh cool neat." But the near slave labour that created it cries out for justice... The enviroment that the plastics and chemicals used to make these gadgets turn the land and sea into toxic deserts that destroy life.... And furthermore it gives the user an illusion of being social when in reality they are all alone with nobody but their Ijunk.

***** And I'm sorry but that is not a sign of progress ******
If you believe that it is.. They you're living in denial.

Finally nature can't corrupt itself. Whatever process nature is engaged in is by definition "natural". Corruption can only occur by the influence of an outside source.

 

It's a little pretentious to say anything that does not follow your ideas are people thinking in denial. Only a fool limits possibility to their own experience.

Progress is a bit hard to define, but it certainly is not limited to what you have stated. I agree yes, those are noble goals, and we distract from those goals through corporate greed, consumerism, and a life of ignorant bliss. But that doesn't mean technology isn't progress. The iPhone in particular you mentioned is ingenious, it doesn't produce as much toxins as you would think, apple is rather green with their production, and if you knew much about Steve jobs he was the hippie of the industry. The iPhone gives you access to the world in your pocket, it's not only the ones who go out and feed the poor that make a difference, knowledge is power.

But even if you hate on the iPhone, go ahead that's your opinion. My point is technology is everything, technology includes hammer, nails, if that didn't exist how would shelter have come to such a great level? We have housed many people with the technology of civilization, you can't say it's useless or evil. Capitalism is a different argument than technology, that is built off of greed for profit without a care for others. Technology is also used all the time to help lesser organizations, without technology we couldn't even have this conversation, others couldn't see it, and the point I intended to drive was that many organizations are built through the Internet.

I'd love to hear your response, but how can you place technology of all things as the source of greed? Technology is inanimate, it is neutral in terms of morals and ethics, even a gun fits this description. It's how people use the technology that becomes an ethical factor