Is it normal i fear science and technology?

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I know that there are MANY positive things that can arise from science and technology (as there have in the past). We can explore the furthest corners of the universe, cure numerous deseases, end hunger, etc, etc. The future offers virtually countless possibilities.

However, there's also a significant dark side to science and technology. Imagine a world where people can read your innermost thoughts, carry micro-atomic bombs in their pockets or even create beings VASTLY superior in ALL ways (MUCH smarter, MUCH stronger, MUCH more beautiful, etc.). That's not a world I want to live in. I fear it. Is it normal, and - more importantly - how should I deal with it?

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  • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI
    11 years ago

    You typed this on a computer? Computers are technology? Think that through.

    Signed,
    Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

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    • Legion
      11 years ago

      Talk about the definition of Irony, huh?

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      • BLAh81
        11 years ago

        No retard, read the below statement.

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        • Legion
          11 years ago

          hey, dont take it so seriously, it was a joke

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          • BLAh81
            11 years ago

            I know dude.

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      Of course I typed this on a computer. I didn't say I was against EVERY form of technology for fuck's sake!

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      • Terence_the_viking
        11 years ago

        yes but your question implies that you are no need to be so aggressive is it your time of the month?

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        • BLAh81
          11 years ago

          My question doesn't imply that at all. Learn to think, genius.

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          • Terence_the_viking
            11 years ago

            you just love being aggressive don't ya

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    11 years ago

    Join the amish lol

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    • BLAh81
      10 years ago

      LOL

      That would be horrible thoough!

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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago

    Technophobia!!

    You're a Neo-Luddite!

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      Yeah well, perhaps the unabomber wasn´t all that crazy...

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    I know where you're coming from. I don't like the idea of microchips or nanobots that can be put in my body and controlled by someone else. The people who put the system in place may do it for noble reason, but noble causes can be taken over and corrupted. Or cybernetics and AI... at what point of modification does a human cease to be a human and become something else? (Kinda random, Dr. Who drives this point home pretty hard with the cybermen)

    Honestly they already use our advances to control us in other ways. That's why doctors and therapists are out there diagnosing our kids with all kinds of disorders, trying to medicate them to bring them in line. The system as it is today thrives off of happy, stupid, consumeristic sheep, and they have a vested interest in keeping in that way. It's what keeps the rich old bastards getting new yachts every year.

    We have all these wondrous (and terrible) advances in our society, but we don't have the wisdom to know how and why to use them. If we spent as much on space exploration and curing disease as we spent on defesne and war... -_-

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      Awesome comment, 100% agreed!

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  • megadriver
    10 years ago

    Wait 'till you see a working terminator... :D

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  • CatRapist
    11 years ago

    There's nothing you can do to make science or technology go away, so you should deal with it by manning-up and growing a pair.

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    • BLAh81
      10 years ago

      "There's nothing you can do to make science or technology go away"

      True.

      "so you should deal with it by manning-up and growing a pair."

      he fact I fear SOME science and technology doesn't mean I'm a pussy. That's fucking obvious.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    haha i suppose you think the terminator is really gonna happen?

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      Most likely not EXACTLY like the terminator, no. But the future nonetheless WILL be EXTREMELY bizarre. Watch a documentary from the BBC called Human Version 2.0. Then talk to me again, moron.

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      • Terence_the_viking
        11 years ago

        haha someone who believes what he see's on tv? yeah ok i'm the moron

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        • BLAh81
          11 years ago

          Like I said, the future WILL be extremely bizarre. That's simply a fact, if you like it or not. And I know you can't believe everything on TV, but you're implying you can't believe ANYTHING on it, which is just plain fuckwitted. So yeah, you really are the moron in this little discussion.

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          • awesometodd
            11 years ago

            The past is bizzare, hell, people thought the earth was flat

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          • Terence_the_viking
            11 years ago

            yep attacking anyone who doesn't agree with you, Yep thats smart. Have a nice deluded life haha haha haha haha haha

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            • BLAh81
              11 years ago

              I didn't attack you for disagreeing with me. I attacked you for laughing at me, while YOU are the one that deserves be laughed at, not wanting to face reality. You're the deluded one, you ignoramus.

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      • VioletTrees
        11 years ago

        People really need to stop basing their opinions so heavily on TV documentaries, especially ones about the future. They're highly speculative, and almost always misleading.

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        • BLAh81
          11 years ago

          There is SOME truth to what you are saying. A lot of documentaries are indeed misleading and speculative . However, you are implying that they are ALL that way, which just isn't true. Even IF only a small fraction of the information in those documentaries would be true, then that would STILL be MORE than enough. You shouldn't fool yourself into believing certain things will never be possible, just because you don't WANT them to be. They scare me too, but that doesn't stop me from facing reality.

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  • VioletTrees
    11 years ago

    Since pretty much everybody would be afraid of products that do that, they probably wouldn't be legal or marketable, even if they could be invented.

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      There will ALWAYS be immoral scientists, who - driven by greed and/or ambition - are willing to continue certain controversial technology, where others left off. I think your comment is very naive.

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      • VioletTrees
        11 years ago

        My point is that the greed part wouldn't work, because such products, even if they were possible, would be widely protested and immediately made illegal.

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        • BLAh81
          11 years ago

          Yes, such products would indeed be widely protested and immediately made illegal. Still doesn't mean there's no possibility they won't still get out there and wreck the world as NEVER before. Besides, certainly not everyone will want to have such products banned. Such people will point out that these products also have some uses that can benefit humanity.

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          • VioletTrees
            11 years ago

            There's also the issue that I don't think some of the products you named are actually possible. You can't have a micro-atomic bomb, for instance. Even if you could find a way to compress the bomb without setting it off, it would be prohibitively heavy. If you scaled down the amount of material in the bomb, but found a way to set it off anyway, the explosion would be tiny.

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            • BLAh81
              11 years ago

              "There's also the issue that I don't think some of the products you named are actually possible."

              I think that is very, very naive. How often has humanity believed certain things to be impossible, only to be disproved by future events? As a kid, for example, I was often told that cloning was only possible in Science-Fiction movies, and would never be in real life. Oops. The fact is that we simply don't know what is and isn't possible. It's pretty scary, but it's also true.

              Btw: micro-atomic bombs can (and therefore will) become a reality with nanotechnology.

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  • Imsupernormal
    11 years ago

    Stupid Christian.

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    • BLAh81
      11 years ago

      I'm NOT a Christian in the least. In fact, I despise that absurd and immoral religion. What ever gave you the idea that I was one, you braindead cunt?

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