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Old 11-28-12, 06:32 PM   #12
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I think it is just sound to minimize known risks and not to use carelessly and easy-minded technologies that have inherent dangers and risks. We have lived ourmloives with cellphones, smartphones and internet just two deacdes ago, and I just say: it was no worse life, not at all.

Such a life is possible. And it has nothing to do with wanting back the safety of the cave in the stone age.

I am not against technology. But I think that many people, especially in America, and especially younger ones not knowing it differently anymore, take it for granted too carelessly, and have too uncritical an attitude towards it, and reflect too little about inherent problems, may it be regarding security, may it be regarding cultural changes that get enforced by changes in the technological world. Heck, Windows alone even changes our cognitive and psychological working modes, and I bet most people are not aware that instead of having a machine following the human they now work and organise their working processes according to the demands of the computer world. And this means a limitation and channeling of possible options. You do not think openly in creative terms, anymore - you think in terms defined and dictated by the working procedures of the OS and the used software. The machine is no longer there for you - you are there for the machine.

Some awareness on these and other implications cannot hurt, I think. Else the homo sapiens' evolution sooner or later ends at a walking Gameboy set to endless demo-mode.
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