Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

[jewpinthethird]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Of course we wouldn't act that primitively. Not in today's world. But we're talking about a world where technology does just about everything for us. Think about it. If technology does everything for us, what is the point of even going to school to learn anything? We won't ever need to apply that knowledge anywhere, because a machine has taken over that job for us. We may not ever need to learn multiplication or advanced language capabilities.

Now, if all that technology is destroyed or is lost somehow, will we be primitive?

We wouldn't be primitive, we'd be vegetables.

[~One~]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

What if simple tasks like eating had been taken care of by robots in this future, and we had forgotten how to; then the machinery used to do it was no more? What would become of the world then?

i dont think were going to forget how to eat.

[Ground_Breaker]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

We would be a bit "primitive", but I doubt that we would stay that way for ever unless the human race dies out all togather.

Well we probably wouldn't stay that way forever, you're right. Needless to say, though, that as much as we rely on technology even today, it would take a long time.

we'd be vegetables.

Well I don't think we'd be vegetables (according to the medical definition) because we would still have motor function and brain activity, but I think we would have very little understanding of how to take care of ourselves.

That said, I do think human instinct would still be there, meaning we would probably look for food and shelter and other basic necessities of life. But outside of that, we probably wouldn't know much better, so I'd say we are pretty primitive at that point.

i dont think were going to forget how to eat.

Neither do I, because I don't think robots are going to ever hand-feed us. They might cook and prepare our meals, but we aren't going to really need a robot to take care of the action of lifting our hands to our mouths so we don't have to expend the energy.

[devonin]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Yeah, some people seem to have a little overdone of an opinion about just how many elements of our day-to-day life people are going to subordinate to technology.

I'm a very techy person, I use a lot of elements of technology for many many things. That said, I can still grow and harvest crops, and prepare them into food using an open fire. Sure if suddenly all technology ceased functioning, life would be -harder- that doesn't necessarily mean "worse"

[Ground_Breaker]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Sure if suddenly all technology ceased functioning, life would be -harder- that doesn't necessarily mean "worse"

Not for you. But for people like me, who can't grow and harvest crops (to the point where they'll be safe to eat) and who do rely a lot on technology, life would be worse because there would be a lot more work involved in everyday life. I equate harder work with being worse. Lazy? Yeah, probably. But there are a lot of people who share the same view as I do.

Anyway, it's being primitive that we're talking about here, not as much the quality of life.

[Cj_leonine]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Well I'm not so sure it would make us as primitive as it would lazy. I think the more we rely on technology the more people would expect everything to go their way without having to lift a finger.

[devonin]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Not for you. But for people like me, who can't grow and harvest crops (to the point where they'll be safe to eat) and who do rely a lot on technology, life would be worse because there would be a lot more work involved in everyday life.

Do you possess any kind of useful skill or ability that you could use in barter for food from those who are skilled in acquiring and preparing it?

Given a lack of technology, bartering would become far more common, and if you don't possess -any- skills that would be of use in the event of some global catastrophe, that might be something to put on your list of new year's resolutions come January.

[Aa_Doodaa]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

i dont think were going to forget how to eat.

Okay, I don't mean that one day we're going to wake up and not know how to eat. I mean that over time, eating requires less effort than it does currently (however that would work.. maybe automatic feeding tubes that feed you with just the right amount of nutrients three times daily?), and if we lose access to whatever it is that allowed us to eat effortlessly, then will those who never learned how to swallow (because that isn't a skill that you're born with) be able to learn how to feed themselves before they die of starvation?

To answer my own question, I think that if we were to lose technology, we would go back to the ways of the pilgrims, and progress back to where we are now, faster than had happened in the future, and with the knowledge of the mistake we had made in the 'futuristic past,' so to speak. I don't think now that our civilization would decrease to past the pilgrim age.

[Aa_Doodaa]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

We wouldn't be primitive, we'd be vegetables.

I agree.

[devonin]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Okay, I don't mean that one day we're going to wake up and not know how to eat. I mean that over time, eating requires less effort than it does currently (however that would work.. maybe automatic feeding tubes that feed you with just the right amount of nutrients three times daily?), and if we lose access to whatever it is that allowed us to eat effortlessly, then will those who never learned how to swallow (because that isn't a skill that you're born with) be able to learn how to feed themselves before they die of starvation?

This is such a dramatically over-the-top example of where you're trying to come from, that I have difficulty taking it seriously.

[Mr_Tumness]

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Wow its funny that you say all this stuff, why would someone let them selfs get that low, especially when you need money in the first place, i mean some people aren't just born rich, some of us are pretty poor, trying to make it by with nothing, there is no way that people could get like this, because there's always gonna be someone out there thats poor and that knows how to eat, drink, what ever you want to do. I know for a fact that were not gonna get a robot to play ffr anyways i mean there would be no fun in that, they would all get the same score.

[Aa_Doodaa]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

This is such a dramatically over-the-top example of where you're trying to come from, that I have difficulty taking it seriously.

Yeah it is kinda over-the-top. I see what you mean, but sometimes it's best to take things to the extreme to explain them.

[irishknight]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

What if, one day in the future, human beings had almost no responsibilities because it was all done by machinery, and we lost the knowledge of how to do things that had been formerly done by technology?

No, we have it recorded in books so that we will not forget.

Unless.. We'd somehow use the books as firewood like they did 2000 years ago at the start of the dark ages.

[devonin]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

It'll be like bonfire of the vanities, only for vital information about ways of life!

[Aa_Doodaa]

Re: Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

Lol, absorb the aroma of the dying text of life, information that could save the world >.>