I agree with this. I don’t carry a cell phone and find it annoying to listen to people talking to someone who isn’t there. I know that when I turn around I will either find someone on a cell phone or a schizophrenic.
I also question whether technology really improves our lives like we think it does. Freud gave the example of someone who thinks he has progressed because he can travel all over the world on an airplane, but before airplanes people lived together in small communities so traveling on an airplane wasn’t necessary to begin with. The technology just solves a problem that it created.
Another example – young associate lawyers today are expected to do all their own writing on a computer. At first analysis, it would seem the computer has improved his life. But, before computers, a lawyer would talk into a dictation machine and have a secretary type it up. Anyone still using a dictation machine can tell you that once you figure it out, it is about 100 times faster than typing on a computer. Now the young lawyer is a worker bee instead of professional, works longer hours, and he can’t use the word “secretary” and she sneers at him instead of seeing a potential husband. So has technology made a lawyer’s life easier or worse? I actually think Kaczynski’s thesis is a good read and he illustrates how technology changes the social environment and character of human beings.
I also question whether technology really improves our lives like we think it does. Freud gave the example of someone who thinks he has progressed because he can travel all over the world on an airplane, but before airplanes people lived together in small communities so traveling on an airplane wasn’t necessary to begin with. The technology just solves a problem that it created.
Another example – young associate lawyers today are expected to do all their own writing on a computer. At first analysis, it would seem the computer has improved his life. But, before computers, a lawyer would talk into a dictation machine and have a secretary type it up. Anyone still using a dictation machine can tell you that once you figure it out, it is about 100 times faster than typing on a computer. Now the young lawyer is a worker bee instead of professional, works longer hours, and he can’t use the word “secretary” and she sneers at him instead of seeing a potential husband. So has technology made a lawyer’s life easier or worse? I actually think Kaczynski’s thesis is a good read and he illustrates how technology changes the social environment and character of human beings.
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