Technology:good,bad or ugly?

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[decypher]

Myra raises a good point about technology in our history. We really can't escape it because even forms of social organization or the inventions of oral and print cultures can be seen as a type of technology.

As for the good or bad thing. I think that technology is only bad when it's held up on a pedestal like a faith in positivism, otherwise, it really depends. No technology is a complete answer for the democratization of information, for example, because there are still real world restrictions on equalities. This doesn't mean that technology is all bad either, I believe it rests somewhere in between. Saying that technology rigidly determines a good or bad result is falling half short of the entire picture. It really has to be applied on a case by case scenario because somethings like architectural determinism, which is considered when designing public space and cities, can have more of a rigid determinative effect while things such as communications technologies depend on how it's used as well as the structural and economic considerations involved. [/run on]

[Krusha]

technology is only good when it comes to music

and that's about it

don't say glasses or pr0n, if natural selection had its way all the blindies would be dead right now and we'd all have 20/20, with our perfect vision we'd all be hot living in a 20/20 euphoric paradise

down with tech!

[GSG9]

if it werent for technology, the ball bearing would not have been created, and thus turbochargers would not either.

so i must conclude that technology is my favorite.