Why must there be so much technology?

[Blindswordmaster]

I hate cell phones. All cell phones. Especially mine.
This isn't an anti-technology rant, I love technology, as entertainment. I just want to know when it became a crime to turn in a hand written assignment. How do feel about the state of technology in everyday life?

 

[Icecoldcynic]

I think technology as a whole improves our day-to-day lives, and without it, we'd find ourselves yearning for a lot of things we take for granted these days.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I hated cellphones with a passion and a fury until I got my smartphone, now I hate cellphones with a passion and a fury but love being able to log on the Escapist anywhere.

 

[delet]

I think it's making us impatient, incapable bastards but I won't be the one to change it.

Also, feel lucky you've got a cell phone; I still haven't got one myself QQ

 

[Sir Kemper]

I don't midn it. yet at the same certain aspects annoy me, like the fact that people now have the ability to blair incredibally loud, and god awful music, wherever they want.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

We're moving slowly toward a mechanized state in which we're all controlled by robots.

 

[Omikron009]

I love it. It just reminds me every day that I live in the future.

"The future is quite different to the present. The one thing we have in common with the present is that we still call it the present...even though...it's the future. What you guys call the present we call the past...so...you guys are way behind."

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I hate that so much technology is necessary in everyday life.
-I also hate facebook and myspace. My friends are on it and they want me on it, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I don't midn it. yet at the same certain aspects annoy me, like the fact that people now have the ability to blair incredibally loud, and god awful music, wherever they want.

.........Are you stalking me? Because that would be great.
I paid for headphones so that I could listen to my music without inconveniencing anyone else. Why am I the only one?

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I don't midn it. yet at the same certain aspects annoy me, like the fact that people now have the ability to blair incredibally loud, and god awful music, wherever they want.

They've been capable of that for a rather long time actually. It's just that now many more people like their god-awful music incredibly loud and are douchy enough to play it through massive speakers.

 

[dududf]

You're question = Why.

My retort = Why not?

 

[dududf]

I think it's making us impatient, incapable bastards but I won't be the one to change it.

Also, feel lucky you've got a cell phone; I still haven't got one myself QQ

Have mine, the last time I touched it was when I changed houses. From which is a year ago on April 24th.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

I love technology, in fact it bothers me a lot when my teachers try to get me not to use it. It was invented to make our lives easier and I want to put it to it's purpose damn it!

 

[Dys]

While I love technology, I can certainly associated with the annoyance at having to submit an assignment typed. I study engineering, the bulk of my assignments are mathematical workings nad they are tedious to type up on a computer and often cannot be expressed in proper notation.

 

[snow]

We're moving slowly toward a mechanized state in which we're all controlled by robots.

I wouldn't mind that so much if that means I don't hafta be nagged by the gf to do the dishes!!

technology is alright man, I think a lot of us would be extremely bored without it.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I just want our corporate overlords at Google to hurry up and put the internet chips in our brains so we can have internet anywhere.

 

[SimuLord]

As much as I love being able to just flip open my laptop and start playing Fallout between classes (or sometimes even in class), and as much as I love being able to call for a taxi without having to look for or borrow a phone, and furthermore as much as I love not having to have my awful chicken-scratch handwriting used as part of the judgment of my college papers...

There is nothing in the world quite like running off to a cabin in the woods and living like the Unabomber for a week, catching fish, using nothing more high-tech than a radio to listen to a baseball game, and partying like it's 1949. Especially if there's an attractive woman in the cabin with me.

 

[Sir Kemper]

I don't midn it. yet at the same certain aspects annoy me, like the fact that people now have the ability to blair incredibally loud, and god awful music, wherever they want.

.........Are you stalking me? Because that would be great.
I paid for headphones so that I could listen to my music without inconveniencing anyone else. Why am I the only one?

Ah, becuase most people assume that other's want to hear:

"SUCK MY C**** N***** B****"

and

"I KISSED A GIRL AND I LYKED IT"

repeated ad nausem.

Nothing against people's choices in music, just don't blair it.

 

[Hollock]

I actually don't have a cell phone

Spoiler

I think we should have "don't be a troll" in kids shows, with the same vein as "look both ways when you cross the street" and "abuse quotation marks whenever possible"

 

[JEBWrench]

As much as I love being able to just flip open my laptop and start playing Fallout between classes (or sometimes even in class), and as much as I love being able to call for a taxi without having to look for or borrow a phone, and furthermore as much as I love not having to have my awful chicken-scratch handwriting used as part of the judgment of my college papers...

There is nothing in the world quite like running off to a cabin in the woods and living like the Unabomber for a week, catching fish, using nothing more high-tech than a radio to listen to a baseball game, and partying like it's 1949. Especially if there's an attractive woman in the cabin with me.

SimuLord, you are truly a hero amongst men.

OT: Technology is pretty damn nifty. Of course, I'm in the design industry, so there's a fair bit of tech that, while not technically necessary, certainly comes in handy.