Technology is great but...
I am glad that I grew up in a time when there wasn't so much technology available to kids. Spending long days outside wandering through the neighborhood finding kids to play with and join up with the traveling pack helped develop social skills that so many kids just don't get anymore. Instant Messaging for conversations, MySpace to develop a friends list, and video games that can suck you in for hours on end is a childhood I'm glad I didn't have.
Just thinking back to some of the times I had as a kid and it made me appreciate the lack of technology that was around at that time. Hell, Pong was a great game and the Atari 2600 was simply amazing.
If you could change things would you want to be a kid in the technology age of today?
Just thinking back to some of the times I had as a kid and it made me appreciate the lack of technology that was around at that time. Hell, Pong was a great game and the Atari 2600 was simply amazing.
If you could change things would you want to be a kid in the technology age of today?
posted by Veign at
10:12 PM
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I had wonderful fun as a poor kid in south Arkansas. My very first experience with "technology" was in 1971? when the first electronic handheld calculator came out. It was amazing, or so we thought. If I were a kid today, I might play some baseball, but more likely I'd never leave the computer.
As far back as the 1920 — 1926 to be exact — the philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote about how technology, or being technical, is not a natural human stance toward our "world." One world is the one you describe in which you grew up. And even if you do manage through technology to connect with others, you still lose your connection to nature and the simplest pleasures it brings from earth, sky, and water.
He tended to think that while technology appeared to make daily life easier, the false complexity it brought concealed our lighter selves, and eventually made most things worse (e.g., the environment, making a living, art, and so on).
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zridling, at 11:33 PM EST
I agree with the statement that technology, or being technical, is not a natural stance toward our world.
If you think about evolution. We evolved over millions of years without technology. This is how our brain and core human traits developed. This is what is 'natural'.
What will the world be like in a million years with technology being the foundation for everything?
I just don't think we will interact in what I consider a healthy way. Its actually minda scary.
I'm glad my childhood consisted of meeting friends at the frog pond, the witch tree, or in the hay field and then to Johnson field to play football.
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Veign, at 11:57 PM EST
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