Technology and Impacts
Earth is one world we know the best because there is physical existence here. Earth is the only place for mutation. In other worlds a spirit does not change. Everything is static there. But on Earth change is the only truth. Earth is also thus a place for Evolution with the ultimate goal of complete descent of Divinity like Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. But Earth is limited and we know almost everything about it well almost everything. In future say 2000 years hence we will need other planets as colonies so that we can stay there and thus increase the area for the mutation and evolution.
Chandrayan is an attempt by India, the first step towards colonization of celestial bodies. Also humankind is feeling lonely and thus there is a thirst in us to seek any intelligent being from outer space. There is a curious corollary to the principle of reflection. It suggests that virtually anything that is conceivable using the faculty of imagination is realizable in matter. This is a very strong statement and has significant implications for science and technology. It may be considered outlandish to suggest that technological accomplishment can reach such levels where it extends into what is conventionally considered the domain of the 'spirit'.
But then, one should wonder at the various functions of the brain, and how the body-soul connection (which is an abstraction) actually takes place. Technology is good for human .Robots save humans from working on hazardous situations like in nuclear plant; mines etc.Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) used in scanning (body) is very useful.Most of the time adv outperformance the disadvantage to its extreme best. Technology is very useful Like Aircrafts, mobile,land,wireless,satellite phones, internet, computer,ships,Space explorers, cars, excavators, and other vehicles,medicine,scanners, Xray, and other hospital appliances etc.
The purpose of Science is to understand the nature not to gain control over the nature. Science has never tried to compete the nature and please for God sake doesn’t call science as a BIG business. It is one of the noble professions existing in the society. Most of the scientists always think to contribute to the society and to the mankind. Alfred Nobel has invented dynamite to break big stones not to blow up someone. Everybody knows how in Manhattan project scientists are forced to develop atom bomb. It is the person who misuses it. It’s not technology who is causing differences among people. Differences had always been there and people have always ego with them. Of course science has provided the opportunity to survive alone but it has not developed any new character of human being.
It is a 21st century where IT has reached at a peak point. Everyone wants to b its part.US UK countries have got so much success in this sector. Now India is also leading like anything. Many of NGO running at rural area and given all the knowledge and it is also succeed in many of parts.
Technology Vs Tradition
Tradition is standard where as technology is volatile that means changes its form often. So tradition always stands there irrespective of d technology. People with different mind sets wanted to think in different ways that is the way technology came into existence.
People can’t compete with the machines. But why one need to work hard if there are easy ways to do the same thing. Moreover these machines r designed by looking at the people’s hand work (standard) only and there are people still who do things on their own.
Technology more harm or good?
Technology is good when its shared and open to the humankind. But it is bad when it is secret and proprietary just to help a few people to exploiting the others.
A modern way of slavery:
Technology is both harmful and good. After all, Good and bad are two sides of the same coin. It just depends which side weigh's more. It can be boon for all when something new is discovered. Let’s say, the internet as long as people are using it for outsourcing/working/networking/trading/education/ entertainment etc. good and really exciting. But on the flip side, the cyber crimes, hacking etc are also at work. So it depends which side we are looking at. As goes the saying “Prevention is better than cure," so when something new is discovered a safety backup is required as well, no matter how long it takes.
But "Obviously technology is good." I don't completely agree with that. Not that I say technology is bad anyway, but what we call "technology" is an inevitable part of our life. When we were monkeys, we had our own technology. It evolves as we do, as do the rest of the universe. The so-called technology is just there, and it'll change continuously. If you remove technology from your life, you simply won't exist. But heck, simply put,
"Would you rather eat raw meat at the bottom of a dark cave?
Technology is a by-product of this existence. e.g. a software development began with very low level technology and has come to a very sophisticated state and it may evolve further similarly when human existence began it searched for simplest of inventions and later on generations developed over the earlier inventions. (Thus, in a way, copyright neither is nor appropriate because whatever you invent or discover is on a basis of inventions or discoveries made earlier). Harm or good is irrelevant because it is part of you. But happiness does not depend on it. You have your moments of happiness, sorrow or stress and caveman had his moments of the same though the source may be different. Similarly a person of future will not be happier just because he/she will be living in more advanced world than us. As long as death is inevitable, the anxiety, the fear remains.
Some people here have mentioned that living in jungle cannot be thought of or is considered inhuman but that is because we are so used to our way of life. It is the attachment to this way of life otherwise living in jungle would not deprive you of your pleasures and once you get used to it then you will create your world their also.
I think technology might have originated from man's laziness. He didn't want to use his muscle power like other animals to earn a living. So he used his intelligence to invent enhancements. Eventually he found that the enhancements did not really reduce his work, it only created a new set of problems which increased his workload. So he invented another technology to solve those problems. But again that new technology gave rise to a new set of problems and he invented another technology to solve those. The process is going on and on; we call it progress.’
With all above that has been said I think one essential point that seems to have got missed is the fact that no one has referred to the political dimension of Technology. Everybody seems to talk like constructivists indicating Technology to look "neutral" which is not so. In fact as philosophers on technology one need to ask what Heidegger once addressed in his essay that "what is the Question concerning technology that we need to know". I would rather like to pose what Langdon Winner said "Technology itself is a political artifact".
Technology Versus Humanity:
"Our technology has surpassed our humanity."
The above famous quote by Einstein implies that even with all the technological advancements humanity as a whole has not entirely benefited. Science is responsible for all the technological innovations.well on one hand i feel that as technology eases our work and saves our time we should be left with more time for people around us..but on other hand it’s like since we have technology for everything, we don’t now need people and everybody is busy in/has created their own world.
I think the real driving force overall behind Science is Greed & Power. Looking at the big picture technology overall does not value human life or nature anymore and is very destructive. The majority of the inventions are based on a Faulty, Reductionism, and machine-like type of science that likes to control nature and is very much misguided due to the BIG "I" which is Industry. The majority of the greatest Scientists are all working for BIG Business which is all about Profit. This is why in my opinion technology has surpassed our humanity and has somewhat resulted in the ecological world problems. I am not implying that all Science is bad, I know that Science is vital for humanity to evolve, however it's like a system out of control and we appear to be devolving instead of evolving.
Those who benefit from technology, feel that technology is an end, is what I feel the originator of the thread means. I feel, technology may find the cure to cancer, but the factory system has made the human being a machine in the factory. We cure machines, when we cure human beings. How can humans evolve the machine, to help humanity? Machines cannot take the place of human beings, like it is being seen in the United States Armed forces. If non human beings, like robots fight wars, then that raises ethical questions. Why should robots be trained to take the lives of human beings, so that the lives of the human beings are not jeopardized who are on the side of those who build robots? To tell the truth, the ethical pondering of human beings are of no consequence in the life of the universe. Human beings will be the most insignificant part of the universe, because they feel that they are so significant. How do we think so much about ourselves, when we contemplate the universe?
Technology in Marketing
If you are a smart businessmen or a marketer. You would only look at the technology from the viewer perspective! To put things into perspective, the number of audience hooked onto the technology becomes more important than the technology. There have been several new forms of technology but the only ones that remain are the ones that the customer can use! This is called commercial value. Hence, in the challenge to overcome this hurdle marketer’s use what you call spam instead of creativity.
Sometimes, even spam can be creative enough to lure you!
Precision Marketing:
Thanks to Google, we have ads up in almost every online property owned by almost any search engine and its parent. Search Engine Marketing is minting money for whoever is willing to convince someone to agree to hire them for it. From seminars to outlook to diamonds to job placements, you name it and they are advertising through SEM and Search Engine Optimization (you wouldn't even know when it’s a marketing effort). And soon "relevant marketing" will begin doing the rounds, i.e. ads replicating classifieds. The crux of this technology taking over and having buzz is precisely based on how little time we spend on it! The effort to make an audience look at your message, comprehend it and act on it is the fastest on these media. Therefore new technology has a customer spending the least amount of time on your ad but I can customize my reach to my exact audience with the right message. This has been a bane in the marketing world for centuries of mass marketing! but then again, that's a very idealistic way to look at it. True, you may get a lot of volume, but the quality of the leads you get through this method suffers greatly. Most of the strongest online brands are the ones that were advertised least in the online space. Today, online marketing tends to overlook brand building gravely. Since online media gives instant gratification to the marketer, on the surface of it things look quite pretty. But online media has still not achieved what offline has. Firstly, one is overlooking a great mass which does NOT have access to the online media. Which makes the whole thing very myopic to begin with- because online media markets generic stuff, not only niche segments? So there is a long way to go to reach an amalgamation of the best possible combinations. SEM based marketing doesn't keep in mind the fact that people search online for information and not a hypermarket. Viral marketing tends to overlook that they are adopting the same "interrupting route" that they think they are moving away from. People have still not been able to stop appreciating the touch and feel of black and white. Plus the romance of it all has been kindly eliminated.
Leads generation is the best on online media. Offline media do not generate leads. Leads can be tracked to the end recipient! This makes the lead genuine and can be cross checked. Online Marketing Activity is very rarely used for brand building! Brand Building is yet strong offline focused dominance. When I speak of online media. I would include new technology such as SMS on Cell phones; the population may not be plugged in but is definitely keyed into new technology
Media neglecting segments is an ignorance of the power of new media. We can segment better online than offline because we know exactly what words the consumer is searching for, we also know the profile of the consumer and can detect location as well. All your P's and any other abbreviations are in place! I would like to re-iterate that this is a better lead generation tool than a Brand Building tool.Print is not a competition but a compliment to new technology. It will never go away! Just as you might have heard about companies doing well because of a good product mix. Similarly a Marketing mix would be a best strike approach.
Is technology killing ethics or not?
As I think technology is for the confirm life for the human beings. the use of technology is depend on the people who is using it. Everything is good in positive way and bad in negative way. As my one of friend told that the technology is killing the ethic. And he gave the examples of orkut,cellphone , internet, neuclear technology, network , media..
1)Orkut is a website which connect to the people, through a channel. You can share your thought with the others. This is a channel from where you can search a friend who was with you 10 years before. He will very happy when he will receive a friend request form you. and this small will be very precious for you. so the technology of orkut is not killing the ethic. As you told that some bed communities on this channel that depends on the mentality of people who created to that. This is not by those people who are managing orkut.
2) Internet is like a sea where knowledge is unlimited like water. You can get everything from use of internet. It solved many problems. So the use of internet is not bad.
3) cell phone is a technology which connect to you to talk with your parents, your girlfriend, and many friends, and those who are near you .if there was no phone there was no night tariff then how becomes possible to talk with a sweet voice for a whole a night. So the use of cell phone is depend on the people who using it.
4) We are leaving in that country where water is in limited amount. Nuclear energy is use to create light, and other treatments. The use of nuclear technology is depend on the people who is using it..
Technology is just like a knife which when given to a doctor saves life at the same time when it is in the hands of murderer it can destruct life. So it is really up to us whether to act like a doctor or a murder and we can never put the blame on tech which is only a tool .some technology which we are widely using nowadays no one can deny the immense uses it gives to us but on the other hand we have people who are misusing it .so it is up to the individual to kill ethics using it or not.
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