Are humans becoming domesticated by technology?
Look at domesticated animals — pets — and how their inability to fend for themselves has rendered them largely obese, lazy, dependent, and less curious. In this sense: are humans becoming domesticated by technology?
This question was asked at the Dropping Knowledge event on 9th September by Ian, 23, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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Answers:
What distinguishes our species as human is that we employ technology, whether a chipped flint arrowhead or a Boeing 747, to live and survive in this world; technology is a part of who we are. We are no longer a "wild" species but we certainly aren't domesticated - I would say we're hypnotized. We're hypnotized by media saturation, advertising, politics, religion, science, TV, radio, the web, books, magazine, etc. into believing things that aren't true; peer pressure completes the process.
I'm not sure you can wake up too many once they've been indoctrinated by media and our self-centered society. This is a cultural, societal and generational issue as well as a technological issue. The only solution is to hypnotize ourselves in a positive direction. Destroying your TV set would be a good start.
Yes, I think we are.
The more we become dependant on technology the less we are able to function without it. Mind you a lot of pets would quickly revert to instinct if put in the position of having to fend for themselves. My cat can certainly catch her own food. I doubt many humans would manage quite so well
I also think that many people have beocme domesticated by the government, especially here in the UK where we have such an extensive welfare state. The more the state intervenes to make peoples decisions and to support them (for whatever reason) the less they are able to do for themselves.
In a way, one can say that is the case. What I think is the case, though, is that technology has made people more wilder. Physically they have got lazier, but mentally they are wild, a lot more than anyone would have thought two dozen years ago.
Man used to know his own and a few other neighborhoods in the days of our great-great grandfathers. They then started sailing to lands far away and learned more. Later came the telephone, then the automobile, which opened more frontiers. Now that we have the emailing system of communication, and sites like this one, we no longer rest. Then we have the cell phone, which has whipped up quit a frency.
As karl marx said in his book : The capital , capitalism creates wealth , but at the expense of human dignity. Capitalism lives a small scope for human well being , and when human will no longer control mechanisation , machines will replace people on agricultural and construction field. If it cost 10 dollars to a worker to plough a small piece of land in one hour, and 8 dollars if performed by a truck then automatically entrepreneurs will use only trucks for production .
Machines which are a product of technology do not talk. Machines do not have the five senses like humans do. Machines do not speak , but they are replacing man on fields. Machines are dictating entrepreneurs whether to hire people in a firm or to fire some workers in the near future .
So machines are domesticating entrepreneurs in this world.
That`s all folk !!.
The term domesticated that you have used, is a tough one to describe the situation.
I don't think that we can compare pets and humans, as their psychology is different.
It is true that humans depend on technology and it is not possible to them anymore do a lot without it.
But is a part of evolution, in my opinion. A previous answerer has called it an effect of capitalism, others are calling it globalization.
In my opinion,rules have changed and as in every field of our life, THE RESULT DEPEND ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY.
I'm not going to talk about some facilities of modern life like electric kitchens and compare them with my granmom's traditional way of cooking. It is evident that it had nothing to offer to make her more clever or less dependent / lazy or more active, more social.
Talking about computers for example, a young person can use it to isolate and fool himself or to communicate, enlarge his knowledge and his views about the world and become more social. I will use a terminology of my profession: it depends on the dosage form. How much is too much?
HERE IS THE ROLE OF EDUCATION, TEACHERS, NGO's AND THE STATE.
Education given during the school time or life long learning, is an alternative solution to the negative effects of globalisation. Its role is very important in the socialisation process of the person at an early age and helps in the maintainance of social bonds.
I have talked about the use of computers, as part of the modern technology.
Another reason for the computers overuse, I would say computer-dipendance, is that THE FAMILY BONDS ARE WEAKENED and the individual doesn't feel the tenderness and the safety that the family offers. He feels unsafe and becomes selfish, he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't want to participate in the social life.
Are you asking me now about the antidote?
A policy implemented by the continuing education organisations or even the civil society groups, that will include a series of things and attractive presentations, in order to inspire the person, help him to overlap this psychological obstacle and find again his interests.
Let's not forget HIGH TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONAL TOYS, at this point.
Don't they wake up a child, don't they help to built a healthy mind if designed properly?
It's a discussion point if the role of the State has to be that of coordinating the efforts or has just to accept the actions of NGO's.
If the previous conditions are satisfied then there will be NO DANGER to be "domesticated'.
So far.
What kind of citizens do we prefer?
Ubidient who is consuming goods and ideas of any kind and are afraid to express their opinion or responsible, selective and aware of the changes that happen around them?
I have already given my own opinion and how I affront this problem in my small world.
EDIT
Sorry that I had to edit twice my answer but I have to mention the aid / contribution of modern technology in two more issues: commerce and medicine (ie. nanotechnology but it is not just this field in which high technology is involved).
Did the enterpreneurers or the health care providers in general become more lazy or less curious in our era?
I'm not going to comment the "largely obese" because of the restricted space given here. It is a complex problem and depends mainly on the quality of food and second on the quantity and life style. It is evident the role of education and the political issue also here.
Thank you again for the oportunity that you have given to us to say that there is not black and white, good tradition and bad modern technology. This is absolutism.
katerina
Good comparison with the animal world. I don't believe that it is necessarily technology that domesticates but governmental licensing of that technology that subdues and makes dependent it's users. Governments want you to be dependent on them to control the economy. Most ppl are just trying to survive life, instead of trying to improve it.
No.
Humans can never be domesticated by anything. Long before technological revolution came, there were cultural revolutions and religious revolutions. All these revolutions did not make humans domesticated in their ideologies. Similarly, tech revolution will also pass.
Human race is intellegent enough to sustain its intelligence. USA and UK may have dropped their intelligence but at the same time countries like India and China are continuously increasing their intellectual abilities since ages. Just see how greatly china has captured the manufacturing sector and India, the software sector.
This analogy is a little too far reaching to me. The definition of domestication is not getting fat and lazy, it is becoming dependent on humans, to be cared for by humans, spoon-fed by humans, etc. Domesticated animals do lack curiosity and as a result have lower brain masses than their wild counter parts. This is due to a lack of stimulation in a static environment. Is the Internet, TV, or other forms of technology static? No, I don't think so. It is always changing and growing. I can look up any problem or question I have and get an answer almost immediately. I can tune in Discovery Chanel, DIY, or PBS and learn things I never thought of asking before. Yes these forms can be used for entertainment also but most people who know how to use technology are knowledgeable enough to know how to use it for research and growth also. So do I think we are getting stupider? No, quite the opposite. Are we dependent on technology? Yes, I will agree whole heartedly to this aspect. I don't think it is the worse for us though. It saves time, money and headache to be able to click and file, click and restore. The only way I can see this dependence as bad is if we lost ALL technology, but I don't think that will happen any time soon. As for lazy and obese, well I don't think we can blame our custom of overindulgence solely on technology. This has been a worsening trend for decades before the technology boom.
The closest I can agree to your statement is to say technology can be abused if it is used solely for entertainment and people don't balance time using technology with time outdoors and time in the "real world." So is overuse, or should I say abuse, of technology a valid concern? Yes, but "domesticated"? No.
not domesticated, addicted
no,humans become domesticated on their own,it's called free will.
some humans thirst for knowledge, learn to do things for themselves, and have physically active lifestyles.
the same argument could be used for former slaveowners who became domesticated by owning slaves who did everything for them ,we both know this arguement is bs cause the civil war came and went and guess what? those helpless dependent lilywhite slaveowners managed to keep their plantations and political power they were not as dependent as one would think,people do what they can get away with, apathy and lack of ambition or contentment would lead one to become domesticated, just because a man has access to tools and resources does not mean he will decide to use them to get by,this personality defect is not the norm for all of us, plus alcoholism is rampant in America, these people produce either under or overacheiving offspring ,more often overacheivers so, with no cure for alcoholism in sight,it is highly doubtful this country of overacheivers will fall prey to the domesticating evils of technology
Yes.
We need cars to get to work.
Imagine the trouble you'd have to go through just to get a hamburger if it wasn't for the nice people you buy it from.
Life with out Internet? <shudder>
Taking a shower would be a chore. you'd either freeze do death or get boiled alive.
The more domesticated you become the more depressed you will be. When you try to pretend that you are something other than an animal you will become fake and portray the part of a cartoon character
I asked a question like that once, and everyone said "YEAH RIGHT"! I completely agree with you that with more technology we are getting lazier, and more unable to fend for our selves. The better off we THINK we make ourselves, the worse we actually become. WHAT ARE WE? BACKWARDS? but you know, the thing is that, you have to face the fact that if there was no computers, and no Internet, you wouldn't even be reading my answer right now. Wait, you wouldn't even have that question in the first place then, would you. but really though, I agree with you 100%, but know that those people depending on stuff they don't have to depend on, just to keep themselves happy, won't want to admit it. Ask it to some guy getting into his car and see how he reacts. I know what you mean, dude.
Or is technology becoming domesticated by us?
Muhahahaha
just kidding.
sorry couldn't resite a smart allick joke ;-)
Hmmm, no I don't think so. I think if we allow our selves to become domesticated then yes, but we all know what we need and we can fend for our selves if we had to.
The real question is are we loosing wise old knowledge that'll make it easyer for us to servive without technology?
I think so.
Take for instance I don't know how to grow potatos, but my Grandma's do. However they never passed it down, because we don't give importance to such things in a high tech society (USA example, I'm not saying all high tech societys will be out of touch with old or nature lol)
Anyways.
My point is sometimes we forget or worse loose the valuble knowledge we already had, because we put this false expectation that technology will do it ALL for us and we will NEVER need to know what came before.
That's our doing, not technology's.
We need to keep both the old and expand the new, we need respect.
So we're not domesticated, we're suffering from memory loss
;-) from eying the dazzling new toys we have
::: Peace :::
Not only domesticated, but castrated.
No. Humans were domesticated long before technology.
I think that as long as mankind tends to try to be more physically independent from the forces of nature, the more we tend to be exposed to them.
Indeed we try to control much of our enviroment but in our efforts to find more effective mechanisms of control we become slaves of those mechanisms to survive.
However, we have to recognize that technology is a real manifestation of our brain evolution. I think was inevitable to create "technology" as a natural step in the daily human necessity to be in a better state than his predecessors.
We have to learn to live with the result of hundred of years of human's real invention in order to continue our presence in this planet as a species.
Not domesticated, but dependant.
not in third world countries.
No, we are domesticating technology.
The flood of oil into the american economy has made things possible that were never even imanginable before.
We used to have a social order that people who lived out of town raised food. Folk who lived in town engaged in business. Now we have urban sprawl. If oil dries up or becomes too expensive, how will we continue this life style. How will people who live far from the job get to work? Once we find out selves in such a situation how will we survive. Oil has made it possible for a very small number of people to raise a very large amount of food. When that is gone we will see our world get very large. It will be too far for china to stock a walmart shelf. We have lost the ability to garden for our food. Most teenage kids have no clue how to bottle or can any of their own produce. In fact of the grocery store were to run out as a result of disaster or war, they would starve in a matter of a few days. The ability to survive harsh conditions is more a thing of the pioneer past. Less of a thing of the here and now. Most kids can't tell the difference between garden plants sprouting up and weeds.
Even the art of fixing a meal from scratch is becoming a lost art.
The first time we had a power outage when my daughter was little was an eye opening experience. She wanted something to eat. Can't right now the power is out..well can't you just put it in the microwave?
Most have no idea where all that electric power comes from or how it is made. Most have no idea how to repair a car. Most have no idea how to do basic construction to build their own house. We have become very specialized and that has its good points but that means we are at the mercy of each others specialty. If we are going to be more independant, we need to know how to do more and then do it. Otherwise it becomes a lost art. Do you know how to bottle butter so it will keep without refidgeration? Can you even make butter? Its become a lost art. However a few of us are still doing it. I suppose some day I'll be very popular. But not till the rest of the world is in a world of hurt.
The day and age of people just buckling down and doing what needs to be done is slipping past. The age of dependance is upon us. We have never been so vulnerable in all the history of man.
Yes - just imagine if electricity was shut down. How would we get by? Humans (such as myself) have forgotten that electricity in itself is not a necessity for living. The worlds attention would be completely focused on getting our electricity back by any means - most humans are dependent on it and useless without it. And have gone lazy because of it. What percent of the population would be obese if we all had to chop our own wood? Walk to the local grocery store, instead of driving the 1/2 mile it takes to get there?
Take away our technology and dangle it in front of our faces - we'll do stupid pet tricks to get it back.;)
Did anyone ask an intelligent question at this event or are they all leftwing drivel?
yes we are. but wen technology fails us we will die because we have forgotten how to live in the wild
Some people are using technology to save time and to produce more with less effort. For example, the stock market is using computers to make more transactions (and more money) with other companies. A long time ago, farmers used to domesticate animals, like cows and horses, to produce more. Today, farmers are using technology to produce even more and different kinds of food. To depend on something to achieve more and better, isn't the same that to become domesticated by it.
Yes and no.
Humans are becoming domesticated by the media which is sending out all kinds of false messages to subdue and hypnotize us.
On the other hand, the Internet represents the possible antidote to TV programming.
Strange question. Since humans invented the concept of "housing" (domus = house in Latin), then I don't see how they are suddenly now becoming domesticated by technology (something which they also invented).
If your point is that techology renders humans less capable of fending for themselves in the wild, that's only seemingly true, because even the primitive cavemen did not hunt with bare hands but with spears and bows, which were nothing more but primitive technology. In fact, it could be argued that technology is what gave humans the edge in the fight for their survival.
If you take away all technological innovations from the human species, you end up with a society not unlike those of chimpanzees or gorrilas. Do they have any edge over us in terms of survival? Maybe, maybe not. After all, you don't really need all that survival skill to gather berries, nuts, insects and fruit. Humans are capable of amazing adaptions when our survival is at stake, even if we're deprived of any technology.
Yes. We are very dependant upon the technology age to help us out. I am sitting here right now flipping through my remote control. lol
i think we have become.
Yes we are..which is kind of sad if you think about it mate.
Of course not I game for points here for hours on end like everone else Lol.
how much money you would like?
What question would guarantee you getting over 100 responses?
Science question?
Are the thoughts and actions of the youths being taking seriously in social and political development?
can i run on the water if i run very fast?
Whats the biggest thing that you regret most in your life?
Has your mate, or someone told you a blatant lie!.?
what is economic thought?
This question was asked at the Dropping Knowledge event on 9th September by Ian, 23, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
To find out more about Dropping Knowledge check out our blog:
Dropping Knowledge in the UK: http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qt1kkp.
Dropping Knowledge in the US: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8ph0dcor.
To discuss this subject in more detail follow this link to the official Dropping Knowledge website: http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/pos.
Answers:
What distinguishes our species as human is that we employ technology, whether a chipped flint arrowhead or a Boeing 747, to live and survive in this world; technology is a part of who we are. We are no longer a "wild" species but we certainly aren't domesticated - I would say we're hypnotized. We're hypnotized by media saturation, advertising, politics, religion, science, TV, radio, the web, books, magazine, etc. into believing things that aren't true; peer pressure completes the process.
I'm not sure you can wake up too many once they've been indoctrinated by media and our self-centered society. This is a cultural, societal and generational issue as well as a technological issue. The only solution is to hypnotize ourselves in a positive direction. Destroying your TV set would be a good start.
Yes, I think we are.
The more we become dependant on technology the less we are able to function without it. Mind you a lot of pets would quickly revert to instinct if put in the position of having to fend for themselves. My cat can certainly catch her own food. I doubt many humans would manage quite so well
I also think that many people have beocme domesticated by the government, especially here in the UK where we have such an extensive welfare state. The more the state intervenes to make peoples decisions and to support them (for whatever reason) the less they are able to do for themselves.
In a way, one can say that is the case. What I think is the case, though, is that technology has made people more wilder. Physically they have got lazier, but mentally they are wild, a lot more than anyone would have thought two dozen years ago.
Man used to know his own and a few other neighborhoods in the days of our great-great grandfathers. They then started sailing to lands far away and learned more. Later came the telephone, then the automobile, which opened more frontiers. Now that we have the emailing system of communication, and sites like this one, we no longer rest. Then we have the cell phone, which has whipped up quit a frency.
As karl marx said in his book : The capital , capitalism creates wealth , but at the expense of human dignity. Capitalism lives a small scope for human well being , and when human will no longer control mechanisation , machines will replace people on agricultural and construction field. If it cost 10 dollars to a worker to plough a small piece of land in one hour, and 8 dollars if performed by a truck then automatically entrepreneurs will use only trucks for production .
Machines which are a product of technology do not talk. Machines do not have the five senses like humans do. Machines do not speak , but they are replacing man on fields. Machines are dictating entrepreneurs whether to hire people in a firm or to fire some workers in the near future .
So machines are domesticating entrepreneurs in this world.
That`s all folk !!.
The term domesticated that you have used, is a tough one to describe the situation.
I don't think that we can compare pets and humans, as their psychology is different.
It is true that humans depend on technology and it is not possible to them anymore do a lot without it.
But is a part of evolution, in my opinion. A previous answerer has called it an effect of capitalism, others are calling it globalization.
In my opinion,rules have changed and as in every field of our life, THE RESULT DEPEND ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY.
I'm not going to talk about some facilities of modern life like electric kitchens and compare them with my granmom's traditional way of cooking. It is evident that it had nothing to offer to make her more clever or less dependent / lazy or more active, more social.
Talking about computers for example, a young person can use it to isolate and fool himself or to communicate, enlarge his knowledge and his views about the world and become more social. I will use a terminology of my profession: it depends on the dosage form. How much is too much?
HERE IS THE ROLE OF EDUCATION, TEACHERS, NGO's AND THE STATE.
Education given during the school time or life long learning, is an alternative solution to the negative effects of globalisation. Its role is very important in the socialisation process of the person at an early age and helps in the maintainance of social bonds.
I have talked about the use of computers, as part of the modern technology.
Another reason for the computers overuse, I would say computer-dipendance, is that THE FAMILY BONDS ARE WEAKENED and the individual doesn't feel the tenderness and the safety that the family offers. He feels unsafe and becomes selfish, he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't want to participate in the social life.
Are you asking me now about the antidote?
A policy implemented by the continuing education organisations or even the civil society groups, that will include a series of things and attractive presentations, in order to inspire the person, help him to overlap this psychological obstacle and find again his interests.
Let's not forget HIGH TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONAL TOYS, at this point.
Don't they wake up a child, don't they help to built a healthy mind if designed properly?
It's a discussion point if the role of the State has to be that of coordinating the efforts or has just to accept the actions of NGO's.
If the previous conditions are satisfied then there will be NO DANGER to be "domesticated'.
So far.
What kind of citizens do we prefer?
Ubidient who is consuming goods and ideas of any kind and are afraid to express their opinion or responsible, selective and aware of the changes that happen around them?
I have already given my own opinion and how I affront this problem in my small world.
EDIT
Sorry that I had to edit twice my answer but I have to mention the aid / contribution of modern technology in two more issues: commerce and medicine (ie. nanotechnology but it is not just this field in which high technology is involved).
Did the enterpreneurers or the health care providers in general become more lazy or less curious in our era?
I'm not going to comment the "largely obese" because of the restricted space given here. It is a complex problem and depends mainly on the quality of food and second on the quantity and life style. It is evident the role of education and the political issue also here.
Thank you again for the oportunity that you have given to us to say that there is not black and white, good tradition and bad modern technology. This is absolutism.
katerina
Good comparison with the animal world. I don't believe that it is necessarily technology that domesticates but governmental licensing of that technology that subdues and makes dependent it's users. Governments want you to be dependent on them to control the economy. Most ppl are just trying to survive life, instead of trying to improve it.
No.
Humans can never be domesticated by anything. Long before technological revolution came, there were cultural revolutions and religious revolutions. All these revolutions did not make humans domesticated in their ideologies. Similarly, tech revolution will also pass.
Human race is intellegent enough to sustain its intelligence. USA and UK may have dropped their intelligence but at the same time countries like India and China are continuously increasing their intellectual abilities since ages. Just see how greatly china has captured the manufacturing sector and India, the software sector.
This analogy is a little too far reaching to me. The definition of domestication is not getting fat and lazy, it is becoming dependent on humans, to be cared for by humans, spoon-fed by humans, etc. Domesticated animals do lack curiosity and as a result have lower brain masses than their wild counter parts. This is due to a lack of stimulation in a static environment. Is the Internet, TV, or other forms of technology static? No, I don't think so. It is always changing and growing. I can look up any problem or question I have and get an answer almost immediately. I can tune in Discovery Chanel, DIY, or PBS and learn things I never thought of asking before. Yes these forms can be used for entertainment also but most people who know how to use technology are knowledgeable enough to know how to use it for research and growth also. So do I think we are getting stupider? No, quite the opposite. Are we dependent on technology? Yes, I will agree whole heartedly to this aspect. I don't think it is the worse for us though. It saves time, money and headache to be able to click and file, click and restore. The only way I can see this dependence as bad is if we lost ALL technology, but I don't think that will happen any time soon. As for lazy and obese, well I don't think we can blame our custom of overindulgence solely on technology. This has been a worsening trend for decades before the technology boom.
The closest I can agree to your statement is to say technology can be abused if it is used solely for entertainment and people don't balance time using technology with time outdoors and time in the "real world." So is overuse, or should I say abuse, of technology a valid concern? Yes, but "domesticated"? No.
not domesticated, addicted
no,humans become domesticated on their own,it's called free will.
some humans thirst for knowledge, learn to do things for themselves, and have physically active lifestyles.
the same argument could be used for former slaveowners who became domesticated by owning slaves who did everything for them ,we both know this arguement is bs cause the civil war came and went and guess what? those helpless dependent lilywhite slaveowners managed to keep their plantations and political power they were not as dependent as one would think,people do what they can get away with, apathy and lack of ambition or contentment would lead one to become domesticated, just because a man has access to tools and resources does not mean he will decide to use them to get by,this personality defect is not the norm for all of us, plus alcoholism is rampant in America, these people produce either under or overacheiving offspring ,more often overacheivers so, with no cure for alcoholism in sight,it is highly doubtful this country of overacheivers will fall prey to the domesticating evils of technology
Yes.
We need cars to get to work.
Imagine the trouble you'd have to go through just to get a hamburger if it wasn't for the nice people you buy it from.
Life with out Internet? <shudder>
Taking a shower would be a chore. you'd either freeze do death or get boiled alive.
The more domesticated you become the more depressed you will be. When you try to pretend that you are something other than an animal you will become fake and portray the part of a cartoon character
I asked a question like that once, and everyone said "YEAH RIGHT"! I completely agree with you that with more technology we are getting lazier, and more unable to fend for our selves. The better off we THINK we make ourselves, the worse we actually become. WHAT ARE WE? BACKWARDS? but you know, the thing is that, you have to face the fact that if there was no computers, and no Internet, you wouldn't even be reading my answer right now. Wait, you wouldn't even have that question in the first place then, would you. but really though, I agree with you 100%, but know that those people depending on stuff they don't have to depend on, just to keep themselves happy, won't want to admit it. Ask it to some guy getting into his car and see how he reacts. I know what you mean, dude.
Or is technology becoming domesticated by us?
Muhahahaha
just kidding.
sorry couldn't resite a smart allick joke ;-)
Hmmm, no I don't think so. I think if we allow our selves to become domesticated then yes, but we all know what we need and we can fend for our selves if we had to.
The real question is are we loosing wise old knowledge that'll make it easyer for us to servive without technology?
I think so.
Take for instance I don't know how to grow potatos, but my Grandma's do. However they never passed it down, because we don't give importance to such things in a high tech society (USA example, I'm not saying all high tech societys will be out of touch with old or nature lol)
Anyways.
My point is sometimes we forget or worse loose the valuble knowledge we already had, because we put this false expectation that technology will do it ALL for us and we will NEVER need to know what came before.
That's our doing, not technology's.
We need to keep both the old and expand the new, we need respect.
So we're not domesticated, we're suffering from memory loss
;-) from eying the dazzling new toys we have
::: Peace :::
Not only domesticated, but castrated.
No. Humans were domesticated long before technology.
I think that as long as mankind tends to try to be more physically independent from the forces of nature, the more we tend to be exposed to them.
Indeed we try to control much of our enviroment but in our efforts to find more effective mechanisms of control we become slaves of those mechanisms to survive.
However, we have to recognize that technology is a real manifestation of our brain evolution. I think was inevitable to create "technology" as a natural step in the daily human necessity to be in a better state than his predecessors.
We have to learn to live with the result of hundred of years of human's real invention in order to continue our presence in this planet as a species.
Not domesticated, but dependant.
not in third world countries.
No, we are domesticating technology.
The flood of oil into the american economy has made things possible that were never even imanginable before.
We used to have a social order that people who lived out of town raised food. Folk who lived in town engaged in business. Now we have urban sprawl. If oil dries up or becomes too expensive, how will we continue this life style. How will people who live far from the job get to work? Once we find out selves in such a situation how will we survive. Oil has made it possible for a very small number of people to raise a very large amount of food. When that is gone we will see our world get very large. It will be too far for china to stock a walmart shelf. We have lost the ability to garden for our food. Most teenage kids have no clue how to bottle or can any of their own produce. In fact of the grocery store were to run out as a result of disaster or war, they would starve in a matter of a few days. The ability to survive harsh conditions is more a thing of the pioneer past. Less of a thing of the here and now. Most kids can't tell the difference between garden plants sprouting up and weeds.
Even the art of fixing a meal from scratch is becoming a lost art.
The first time we had a power outage when my daughter was little was an eye opening experience. She wanted something to eat. Can't right now the power is out..well can't you just put it in the microwave?
Most have no idea where all that electric power comes from or how it is made. Most have no idea how to repair a car. Most have no idea how to do basic construction to build their own house. We have become very specialized and that has its good points but that means we are at the mercy of each others specialty. If we are going to be more independant, we need to know how to do more and then do it. Otherwise it becomes a lost art. Do you know how to bottle butter so it will keep without refidgeration? Can you even make butter? Its become a lost art. However a few of us are still doing it. I suppose some day I'll be very popular. But not till the rest of the world is in a world of hurt.
The day and age of people just buckling down and doing what needs to be done is slipping past. The age of dependance is upon us. We have never been so vulnerable in all the history of man.
Yes - just imagine if electricity was shut down. How would we get by? Humans (such as myself) have forgotten that electricity in itself is not a necessity for living. The worlds attention would be completely focused on getting our electricity back by any means - most humans are dependent on it and useless without it. And have gone lazy because of it. What percent of the population would be obese if we all had to chop our own wood? Walk to the local grocery store, instead of driving the 1/2 mile it takes to get there?
Take away our technology and dangle it in front of our faces - we'll do stupid pet tricks to get it back.;)
Did anyone ask an intelligent question at this event or are they all leftwing drivel?
yes we are. but wen technology fails us we will die because we have forgotten how to live in the wild
Some people are using technology to save time and to produce more with less effort. For example, the stock market is using computers to make more transactions (and more money) with other companies. A long time ago, farmers used to domesticate animals, like cows and horses, to produce more. Today, farmers are using technology to produce even more and different kinds of food. To depend on something to achieve more and better, isn't the same that to become domesticated by it.
Yes and no.
Humans are becoming domesticated by the media which is sending out all kinds of false messages to subdue and hypnotize us.
On the other hand, the Internet represents the possible antidote to TV programming.
Strange question. Since humans invented the concept of "housing" (domus = house in Latin), then I don't see how they are suddenly now becoming domesticated by technology (something which they also invented).
If your point is that techology renders humans less capable of fending for themselves in the wild, that's only seemingly true, because even the primitive cavemen did not hunt with bare hands but with spears and bows, which were nothing more but primitive technology. In fact, it could be argued that technology is what gave humans the edge in the fight for their survival.
If you take away all technological innovations from the human species, you end up with a society not unlike those of chimpanzees or gorrilas. Do they have any edge over us in terms of survival? Maybe, maybe not. After all, you don't really need all that survival skill to gather berries, nuts, insects and fruit. Humans are capable of amazing adaptions when our survival is at stake, even if we're deprived of any technology.
Yes. We are very dependant upon the technology age to help us out. I am sitting here right now flipping through my remote control. lol
i think we have become.
Yes we are..which is kind of sad if you think about it mate.
Of course not I game for points here for hours on end like everone else Lol.
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