Technology; its affect on our lives, has it been positive?
Are we friendlier now? Do we still have manufacturing jobs now
? Or, here is a good one, when is the last time you visited a travel agent to reserve or purchase travel arrangements? In Medicine some of the breakthroughs in robotic surgery has been a tremendous help to patients and has reduce recovery time for certain operations by weeks. I am not one crying for the good old days or saying how much better life was back then. I do however make the observation in terms of humanity and the way we now deal with each other. Does anyone still go next door to borrow sugar? lol (that might just be a down south thing, I live in Kansas now). So although I will not pass judgment on our society's behavior today under the influence of modern technology; I will still ask the question, on a whole has technology made us better people? Do we treat each other better than we do our internet friends? I may be different then most because I spent 21 years as a nomad living around the globe where ever Uncle Sam sent me so I can only speak from my experiences. I will however ask you to make a conscious effort to treat the people that you live next to as though you truly want to be in a community with them just as much or more than we treat our online world of electronic friends who couldn't give us a cup of sugar over the fence even if they wanted to.
Technology; its affect on our lives, has it been positive?