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Are we becoming to self reliant on Technology?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2013/jan/01/google-now-personal-assistant
Having a look at the above article I saw linked on twitter, came across an interesting thought in my head. The article talks about how products provided by firms such as google are helping us out.
I think that if you picked up a map and compass, a lot of people wouldn't have a clue how to navigate properly. I think that the mad panic and terror caused when technology goes wrong, is not purely because a service is missing, people just don't know how to do things for themselves anymore. These days we learn how to use technology to give us the information, not the skills involved in actually navigating. In the linked article it mentions apps which can tell us when we need to leave somewhere depending on public transport, what happened to prior preparation preventing piss poor performance (G-Raffes 6 P's of wisdom).
Does being reliant on technology stop us, or hold us back in becoming self reliant as people?
Have you been on a situation where technology has failed, which has perhaps driven you to achieve without it, or has left you in the complete lurch?
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Having a look at the above article I saw linked on twitter, came across an interesting thought in my head. The article talks about how products provided by firms such as google are helping us out.
Does Google's new 'personal assistant' rely too much on individual action, or does it render individuals irrelevant?
I think that if you picked up a map and compass, a lot of people wouldn't have a clue how to navigate properly. I think that the mad panic and terror caused when technology goes wrong, is not purely because a service is missing, people just don't know how to do things for themselves anymore. These days we learn how to use technology to give us the information, not the skills involved in actually navigating. In the linked article it mentions apps which can tell us when we need to leave somewhere depending on public transport, what happened to prior preparation preventing piss poor performance (G-Raffes 6 P's of wisdom).
Does being reliant on technology stop us, or hold us back in becoming self reliant as people?
Have you been on a situation where technology has failed, which has perhaps driven you to achieve without it, or has left you in the complete lurch?
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In the end I wrote her address on my hand, but it did make me stop and think. I could have been left in a strange city with no means to get in contact with anyone I could have rung my mum (about the only telephone number I know off by heart) but she would have been 300 miles away. Sorry if that's a lame example
That is the thing, stuff was there before all this technology appeared, yet it seems to me anyway that people are becoming far too reliant on it.
If technology disappeared/broke/turns evil, those who have the knowledge to look after themselves without it, will survive and move on. Those who don't will simply have to learn, and adapt to live, or die.
If there was a collapse in technology, there's a lot more you'd need to worry about I'm sure.
But you're right, i think people are too reliant on technology, i wonder how much of our lives we would have to change without it. Nobody would be able to come on here for a start
Some countries with good coal reserves like ours may be ok, but others won't be so lucky.
I wouldn't say technology is bad, there are obviously a lot of good that has come from it, but it's the vast amount of technology that's being produced that's able to do more and more which causes us to become more reliable on it.
Sorry it's a bit of a rubbish response...
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It kind of makes sense as technological progress makes things ever more complicated. Centuries ago a lot of accomplished people were described as polymaths. Do we get these any more, people who are experts in many different fields? Or as the complexity of accumulated knowledge gets deeper and deeper does it mean people must specialise?