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    Long times ago people had no technology. More hard work in the fields, fishing, blacksmithing, etc and no offices and such as nowadays. In certain aspects the technology has 'advanced' but with it lots of bad things came through. In the past, wars were fought with swords, then guns were invented which caused even more deaths in wars (it still causes death, wars and crimes, etc). Then bombs, Atomic bombs were invented which killed millions of people and caused lots of deformation, not to mention the huge amount of damage it does to nature.

    Also thieves are using lots of new technology, but cops are also using new technology. So I don't know... has technology gone forwards, or backwards?
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    Technology as such is definitely advancing, however our attitude toward the use of technology whether for good or for bad has probably not changed much. Two different things.
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    Technology has gone forward, but you might see the usage of some technology as going backwards. This might be true in certain instances, but I don't think there is any reason for changing the way in which technology advances (you couldn't even if you wanted to), aside from handling each case of misuse seperately, as we do already.
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    Technology can only go forward, it'll probably slow down at some times, but thanks to the internet, co-operation between scientists is much easier than it was 50 years ago.

    The application of technology is "backwards" in most cases, example:

    Nuclear power, a great amount of clean-ish energy than could power a city or several. Or turn it into a bomb and kill millions.
    Orbital spaceflight, used to put communication satellites that help the population of Earth communicate with each other clearly and quickly, or launch spy satellites to spy on the nations that you distrust.

    But, technology and science should be a very high priority for humanity in general, even though some technologies are used for war, the amount of agricultural, scientific, medicinal technology is worth it.
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    It can be looked at as either positive or negative. Just like nuclear power.
    • CommentAuthor.Hat
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2009
     
    The uses of technology and it's advancement are two separate things. Ones opinion on the morality of the use of technology often depends upon reasoning that is based upon religious ideologies - stem cells, cloning, etc or political views - use of nuclear weapons in WW2, smart drones in Iraq, etc. Technology, in and and of itself is morally neutral. Even technology which has as it's express purpose the death of millions might be seen as good if you possessed certain ideological viewpoints.
    • CommentAuthorihmed2
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2009 edited
     

     

    Long times ago people had no technology. More hard work in the fields, fishing, blacksmithing, etc and no offices and such as nowadays. In certain aspects the technology has 'advanced' but with it lots of bad things came through. In the past, wars were fought with swords, then guns were invented which caused even more deaths in wars (it still causes death, wars and crimes, etc). Then bombs, Atomic bombs were invented which killed millions of people and caused lots of deformation, not to mention the huge amount of damage it does to nature.

    Also thieves are using lots of new technology, but cops are also using new technology. So I don't know... has technology gone forwards, or backwards?

     


    Swords are more lethal than guns, they rarely leave wounded opponents. Huge wars are not even possible with advanced technology, it's all down to small and fast tactical strikes.
    Nukes killed 140000, not millions. And they seem to be pretty effective in actually stopping wars.
    I'm more afraid of a criminal with a knife than one with some high tech junk.

    Go technology!

    • CommentAuthorDuostyle
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2009
     
    Technology is going forward but with dated ideals. I mean, look at Google Wave. It's described as "what e-mail would be if it was designed today".

    The Atom Bomb for example. Something to end war based off the age old principle of blowing it up. Why does combustion have to be involved? Surely a bomb could have the same affect without totalling everything in its path. Such as homing in on genetic traits or even physical traits. I know it's not possible at the minute, but with the proper research it could be. A bomb could be designed similar to the electric device destroying ones you see in films. Nothing you can see. It's dropped. It activates. Everyone with blonde hair blood reaches a temperature of 900 degrees and dies.

    Maybe one day.
    • CommentAuthor.Hat
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2009
     
    Technology advances. The human instincts which drive the use of technology do not.
    • CommentAuthorschurke2000
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2009 edited
     
     
    Technology is going forward but with dated ideals. I mean, look at Google Wave. It's described as "what e-mail would be if it was designed today".

    The Atom Bomb for example. Something to end war based off the age old principle of blowing it up. Why does combustion have to be involved? Surely a bomb could have the same affect without totalling everything in its path. Such as homing in on genetic traits or even physical traits. I know it's not possible at the minute, but with the proper research it could be. A bomb could be designed similar to the electric device destroying ones you see in films. Nothing you can see. It's dropped. It activates. Everyone with blonde hair blood reaches a temperature of 900 degrees and dies.

    Maybe one day.



    >A bomb could be designed similar to the electric device destroying ones you see in films
    >ones you see in films
    >films

    There will never be technilogical advancements such as the one you describe simply because they are un needed. Atom bombs as we all know were only ever used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, because the Japanese killed civilians and military personal, along with a fleet of ships. America felt like getting their own back without giving a shi* about whatever was in their way, and therefore killed millions and destroyed two cities.

    Only will that kind of power be used again if a war does happen to break out, or if a weapon of mass destruction falls into the wrong hands. Those kinds of weapons are there for one reason, to fck up everything a country made itself to be.

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