Will our love of newfangled ways of doing things bite us in the butt someday?

[Buried Alien]

I love modern technology. It offers so much to life. There's absolutely no good reason to use old, outdated methods for doing something when current technology allows us to do it more quickly, more safely, and more efficiently.

That said, will our love of technology come back to bite us in the butt someday?

I'm not talking about nuclear war or global warming type scenarios. I'm talking more about losing basic skills that we used to have. As we rely more and more on technology, will we lose our traditional skills? For example: as animators rely more and more on computers to produce animated films, will the art of illustrating by hand die out? Will we regret it if it does?





Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[o1pickleboy]

Or a more harsher thought. How many people out can say they would survive off the land. Of the 200 million plus people in our country. How many can provide food and build shelter for themselves. Or have other necessarry survivial skills. I know I would be dead pretty quick if I had to rely on my skills.

[howyadoin]

I love modern technology.Like Walkmen and audiocassettes?

[Deskad]

A lot of the obesity problems nowadays stem from technology. Nobody goes outside or exercises anymore.

[Celisasu]

A lot of the obesity problems nowadays stem from technology. Nobody goes outside or exercises anymore.What is this "outdoors" that you speak of? I hear that it is a strange and horrifying place with a vile substance called "sun". ;)

[Spike-X]

And everybody makes random generalisations.

[traxler]

A lot of the obesity problems nowadays stem from technology. Nobody goes outside or exercises anymore.
I do. The problem here is not technology but willpower and education.

[traxler]

Driving cars without automatic shift.
I had to help my american neighbours get up the steep driveway the other day in their rented car. They were rather embarrassed!

[heretic]

I love modern technology. It offers so much to life. There's absolutely no good reason to use old, outdated methods for doing something when current technology allows us to do it more quickly, more safely, and more efficiently.

That said, will our love of technology come back to bite us in the butt someday?

I'm not talking about nuclear war or global warming type scenarios. I'm talking more about losing basic skills that we used to have. As we rely more and more on technology, will we lose our traditional skills? For example: as animators rely more and more on computers to produce animated films, will the art of illustrating by hand die out? Will we regret it if it does?
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
On one hand I also would mourn the loss of various artistic forms if they die off.

On the other... people have been complaining about how new techniques would make old skills useless since bronze supplanted sharp stone insofar as tools were concerned.

HTG

[Paradox]

Buried Alien reveals the luddite in me:

I love modern technology. It offers so much to life. There's absolutely no good reason to use old, outdated methods for doing something when current technology allows us to do it more quickly, more safely, and more efficiently.

Conversely, there's absolutely no good reason to not know how to do these tasks WITHOUT this wonderful technology, either. Just because you have a calculator doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to do long division.

[Paradox]

o1pickleboy shames our state:

Or a more harsher thought. How many people out can say they would survive off the land. Of the 200 million plus people in our country. How many can provide food and build shelter for themselves. Or have other necessarry survivial skills.

**raises hand**

I've made it a point since youth to develop such skills.

[Grant]

I don't know. Personally I think every kid should be forced to go camping or hiking or some weird wilderness survival thing like I did during high school.

[JeffreyWKramer]

I don't know. Personally I think every kid should be forced to go camping or hiking or some weird wilderness survival thing like I did during high school.

Does outdoors sex count?

[Typo Lad]

And everybody makes random generalisations.

I am so in love with you.

Um... in a non-sexual way.

Usually.

[Typo Lad]

I don't know. Personally I think every kid should be forced to go camping or hiking or some weird wilderness survival thing like I did during high school.

I can survive in the wilderness.

For a few hours, anyway.

[Grant]

Does outdoors sex count?

Only if you do it for three weeks straight.

[Shellhead]

Or a more harsher thought. How many people out can say they would survive off the land. Of the 200 million plus people in our country. How many can provide food and build shelter for themselves. Or have other necessarry survivial skills. I know I would be dead pretty quick if I had to rely on my skills.

I think we've got about 285 million people in this country now. Even if everybody learned survival skills in school, I don't think that 285 million people could live off the land here without technology. Without the tech, farming methods would be less efficient, and distribution of edible food would become problematic. Cities would need to depopulate in a hurry.

[Typo Lad]

Cities would need to depopulate in a hurry.

Is that a bad thing?

[K'Nort]

Is that a bad thing?

Depends on whether they depopulate as in folks die or depopulate as in they move out of the cities. The latter would be hell on the environment.

[west3man]

I love modern technology. It offers so much to life. There's absolutely no good reason to use old, outdated methods for doing something when current technology allows us to do it more quickly, more safely, and more efficiently.

That said, will our love of technology come back to bite us in the butt someday?

I'm not talking about nuclear war or global warming type scenarios. I'm talking more about losing basic skills that we used to have. As we rely more and more on technology, will we lose our traditional skills? For example: as animators rely more and more on computers to produce animated films, will the art of illustrating by hand die out? Will we regret it if it does?





Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)I thought about this, recently, when I saw the latest wave of graphing calculators. I've been out of that loop for a while, now, but seeing those and remembering that the SATs, reportedly, may be taken using calculators, these days... I was thinking the same thing.

[Johnny_Storm]

I think the art of basic writing may be lost soon, more and more shools are requiring students to type paper's instead of writing them. True you may learn how to write in 1st or 2nd grade, but from then on kid's are learning how to type atleast that's what is happening in my city. My cousin was in the third grade and they taught him home row on the keyboard. I my self don't remember how to write in cursive unless it's my signiture. :(

[Dreadstar]

Not only can I live off the land, I can defend said land.

I have room enough in the survivalist compound for one of each flavor: blonde, brunette and redhead.

Cooking and barefoot pregnancy a plus. Whiners need not apply.

[Dreadstar]

I thought about this, recently, when I saw the latest wave of graphing calculators. I've been out of that loop for a while, now, but seeing those and remembering that the SATs, reportedly, may be taken using calculators, these days... I was thinking the same thing.

Beats all hell out of having to use a slide rule like I did.

[Forefinger]

What is this "outdoors" that you speak of? I hear that it is a strange and horrifying place with a vile substance called "sun". ;)
Haw haw haw

[EDmanwalking]

One day the internet will be brought down in a bubbling mess. Civilisation as we know it will cease to exist. Then you will regret your dependence on the World Wide Web. Foolish, foolish mortals.

Ah, check me and my morbid prophecies...

[EDmanwalking]

If I could say my last post in English, ahem...

I don't want us to live by the net. Allow me to clarify. Audio cassettes were never really my thing, CDs are much more convenient..but I wouldn't want it to go a step further. I like the artwork and sleeves of an album, I like putting the CD in my player. I'm not saying mp3's are bad, I'm just saying I'd hate to see a future where the CD is totally out of the window in favour of just downloading mp3's. We're seeing the start of this with mp3 sales being included in chart sales. The same can be said for comic books, although not as extreme. As helpful and cheap as they are, I am a little hostile to these DVD collections of 500 issues of Spider-man, Fantastic Four etc. It kinda defeats the object of the term "comic book". I know it's hard to even begin to think of a time when all comics are on the internet, but my point is simply that I don't want everything to depend on "machines".

The robots are gonna take over soon. You all laughed at "I, Robot" and "The Matrix"...especially "The Matrix". The robot revolution is coming.

Ah, there I did it again. I tried to make a normal point and it ended in another morbid prophecy. Although a human-robot war would be so sweet...